[RFC] XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

[Lennart Poettering]

On Wed, 10.11.10 16:17, Ryan Lortie (desrt at desrt.ca) wrote:

> 
> 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.

Good point. Though then again I think we eventually want to do tmpfs
/tmp too. /var/tmp is for largish stuff.

But I guess this is reason enough to not redirect $TMPDIR like this for
now.

Lennart

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