On Fri, 21.01.11 15:01, Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@xxxxxxxxxx) 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#VARTMPTEMPORARYFILESPRESERVEDBETWEE > > (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-generic/execenvfhs.html 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 -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
