On Thursday, May 31 2012, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 05/31/2012 12:45 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> On 05/31/2012 08:14 AM, Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> Now /var/tmp should be "more persistent" which we don't need, > Correct, using /var/tmp is wrong and a mistake. > > IMO, advising people to modify their code to using /var/tmp instead of > /tmp is absurd and evidence of ignorance towards traditional use of > /tmp and the FHS. I couldn't say better. >> So I'll patch sort to default to /var/tmp rather than /tmp. Please don't. As many pointed out, there are many disadvantages in doing this, and I really do not think we should be "fixing" (sic) our apps because of such a controversial feature. `sort' and other programs have been working right like this for *years*; introducing such change would mean "please give me more bugs", as Ralf pointed out. -- Sergio -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
