[RFC] XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 09.11.10 20:53, Rémi Denis-Courmont (remi at remlab.net) wrote:

> 
> Le mardi 9 novembre 2010 20:48:34 Ryan Lortie, vous avez écrit :
> > The problem is that people often leave themselves logged in for weeks or
> > months at a time and that the directory is meant to be located on a
> > tmpfs.
> > 
> > Mix these two facts together with the fact that buggy applications are
> > extremely likely to litter the directory with files over time and you
> > have slowly increasing memory usage.
> 
> And how is this different from /tmp ?

It isn't. Most distros clean up that dir already periodically, and with
systemd we will unify that and make it a core part of the basic
system. systemd will apply the same cleanup rules to /var/run/user as to
/tmp.

Lennart

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