On Fri, 21.01.11 15:01, Richard W.M. Jones (rjones(a)redhat.com) wrote:
> If /tmp is not supposed to be used for data that is inconvenient
to
> store in memory for whatever reason, and that should be automatically
> removed when it is not used, what _is_ it supposed to be used for?
The FHS has some scattered guidance:
(1)
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEROOTFILESYSTEM
(2)
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARTMPTEMPORARYFILESPRESERVE...
(3)
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#TMPTEMPORARYFILES
The FHS is kinda old these days, and it has been a while since it was
last updated. The LSB added some additional rules on top of it:
http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_4.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-...
As did the XDG base dir spec:
http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
Especially the latter introduced a few things that might be useful in
this context.
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.