From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is /dev/shm needed?
Date: 16 Dec 2001 18:26:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9vjl5h$1c6$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16Fkqc-0001Z0-00@DervishD.viadomus.com> <20011216234748.3EDE9FB80D@tabris.net> <E16Fl8j-0000nA-00@phalynx>
Followup to: <E16Fl8j-0000nA-00@phalynx>
By author: Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On December 16, 2001 15:47, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
> > I may be wrong about /tmp as well, but I have come to think that it is data
> > that ought be discarded after logout, and have sometimes considered writing
> > a script for it in the login/logout scripts.
>
> System daemons can legally use /tmp, and they may not apprechiate having
> their files removed from underneath them everytime someone telnets in. ;)
>
Not to mention when you kill a secondary session. It's bogus.
However, discarding /tmp on *REBOOT* is legitimate.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-17 2:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-16 23:37 Is /dev/shm needed? RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:47 ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-16 23:56 ` Ryan Cumming
2001-12-17 0:17 ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-17 2:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2001-12-17 15:50 ` Luigi Genoni
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2001-12-17 8:41 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-17 8:34 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-17 4:14 Jason Rivard
2001-12-16 23:36 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:15 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:12 ` Robert Love
2001-12-16 23:31 ` Pierfrancesco Caci
2001-12-17 8:36 ` ncw
2001-12-17 8:19 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-16 22:02 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 22:30 ` Robert Love
2001-12-16 23:13 ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-16 23:26 ` J Sloan
2001-12-16 23:27 ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-17 9:03 ` Jurgen Botz
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