On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 30 March 2012 17:57, <deeptech71_at_gmail.com> wrote: >> C. P. Ghost wrote: >>> >>> Not clearing /tmp on reboot has been >>> the norm for way too long and it is too late to change now. >> >> >> We either evolve or be in a stalemate forever. > > No, you do it in a sensible, controlled fashion. > > You make it really easy for people to turn on tmpfs by default. Some > distributions of FreeBSD may pick that up, some may not. > > You have some people run with it, find out what software breaks and > start issuing fixes. > > You aim to have that particular default deprecated in a major release. > You make it really easy for users to switch back. You point out that > /tmp was never designed to be persistent across reboots, we're now > making sure that's the case. > > If you feel so inclined, you can add a configuration step in > sysinstall/bsdinstall, to let the user choose. > > The next major release after that, you flip the default to /tmpfs. > > /var/tmp/ is documented to persist across reboots on a normal system. > That require much more discussion. You're changing the default > behaviour. /var/tmp != /var/run But you are entirely correct on the sensible, controlled fashion. -Ben P.S. I am somewhat unconvinced by this: http://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/RunDirectoryReceived on Sat Mar 31 2012 - 00:06:05 UTC
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