[OLPC Security] [sugar] secure /tmp and /var/tmp

[Ivan Krstić]

On Nov 8, 2007, at 11:33 AM, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Heh.  You are way too young....

It takes a long time to become young! On the upside, my work did not  
give rise to xorg.conf ;)


Marcus Leech wrote:
> My first Unix machine had 128K of MOS memory, and we supported about
> 10-15 interactive users on it

MOS memory? _MOS memory_? In my young day we started out as  
apprentice binary registers. Six o'clock in the morning, come rain,  
sleet, hail, or snow, we'ed be there kicking each other in the  
buttocks -- right for 1, left for zero. A'course I say registers,  
cause they were registers to us. But it were a stack really. None o'  
this modern stack pointer rubbish, either. You used to 'ave to  
remember which were t'top element in yer 'ead.

Anyway, due to vocal support, we'll preserve /tmp. I don't think it's  
the best course of action, but we'll roll with it.

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