[sugar] secure /tmp and /var/tmp

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Thu Nov 8 11:33:25 EST 2007


On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 11:20 -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote:

> 
> A tiny size restriction is pretty new.

Heh.  You are way too young....  

The presumption has always been you'd better keep things in /tmp pretty
small; that's why the distinction between /tmp and /var/tmp was made.
It allowed people to use RAM file systems for speed long before it would
have otherwise been feasible.
                            - Jim

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Jim Gettys
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