[18198] in bugtraq
Re: where user temp files should go, env var names
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike A. Harris)
Tue Dec 19 21:08:16 2000
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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:55:34 -0500
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@OPENSOURCEADVOCATE.ORG>
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@OPENSOURCEADVOCATE.ORG>
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Aaron Drew wrote:
>Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:11:16 +1100
>From: Aaron Drew <ripper@HOTKEY.NET.AU>
>To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
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>Subject: Re: where user temp files should go, env var names
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>I wouldn't envisage a kernel patch to give each tty or user its own virtual
>/tmp being be THAT hard to do.
The kernel doesn't differentiate between directories in the
filesystem. For all the kernel cares /tmp is where user
directories are stored. The kernel doesn't ever know or treat
differently any names of dirs in the filesystem. This definitely
has nothing at all to do with the kernel whatsoever. It is a
userland programming issue.
The kernel does not impose policy decisions upon systems, that is
what a sysadmin is for. Fix the programmer.
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#[Mike A. Harris bash tip #3 - how to disable core dumps]
# Put the following at the bottom of your ~/.bash_profile
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