On Tue, 23.09.08 00:25, Colin Guthrie (gmane at colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > > Stelian Ionescu wrote: > > with the attached patch, make_random_dir first tries to use $TMPDIR, > > then $TMP finally defaulting to "/tmp" > > On my system $TMPDIR=/home/$USER/tmp Uh, not sure if this is really such a good idea. I am actually not even convinced that $TMPDIR at all is a good idea. Too many applications assume that dir is a shared namespace they can use to communicate with other users. Also, I see certain security implications here. Before I merge that patch I really need to think about it more... Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
