[fhs-discuss] user-specific directories in /run
Tollef Fog Heen
tfheen at err.no
Mon May 23 13:55:07 PDT 2011
]] Richard Hartmann
| > What makes /tmp unsuitable for this purpose? It's already possible
| > to securely create directories owned by the user there, and these
| > runtime files are, by definition, temporary.
|
| /tmp will most likely be cleared out from time to time. /run is
| guaranteed to.
No, it's not. The earlier consensus was:
I think it makes sense to require applications to not assume that the
contents are persistent across reboots. This does not tie the hands
of distributions, but require that using a tmpfs (or similar) will
work.
This does not guarantee it being cleaned, just forces apps to cope with
it being cleaned.
This in contrast with /tmp, where FHS 2.3 says:
Programs must not assume that any files or directories in /tmp are
preserved between invocations of the program.
so, I think /run is more appropriate than /tmp here.
Regards,
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Tollef Fog Heen
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