[RFC] XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Nov 10 11:13:26 PST 2010


Lennart Poettering (mzkqt at 0pointer.de) said: 
> > 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.

Would we also set $TMPDIR to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR for legacy applications
to use?

Bill


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