[RFC] XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

[Ryan Lortie]

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 20:37 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Mhmm, I don't think we should.
> 
> TMPDIR influences tmpnam(), however that function kinda expects a common
> /tmp namespace anyway, so redirecting this is not necessary.
> 
> I think we shouldn't break assumptions about $TMPDIR, for example that
> it might be useful for communicating with other people.
> 
> It's actually one of the things where I believe polyinstantiated /tmp is
> actually going wrong: $TMP is shared between users, which has many
> negative aspects, but also allows users to communicate with each other. 

/tmp is also often used to store "largeish" things like downloads in
progress.

I don't think we want that in a tmpfs.

Cheers