Re: where user temp files should go, env var names

[Aaron Drew <ripper () HOTKEY NET AU>]

I wouldn't envisage a kernel patch to give each tty or user its own virtual
/tmp being be THAT hard to do.

The physical structure might be /tmp with a heap of subdirectories under it
whereas the user would just see 'tmp'. This also has an advantage in that it
could be cleaned up periodically when the user/tty is not being used
anymore. Cleaning up might break some app's though I suppose.

Aaron

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bugtraq List [mailto:BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM]On Behalf Of Valdis
> Kletnieks
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 7:26 AM
> To: BUGTRAQ () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: Re: where user temp files should go, env var names
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:12:08 +0100, Andrzej Chabierski
> <outsider () LANGUSTA STARNET PL>  said:
> > -      "/tmp",
> > +      (*myhomedir()) ? myhomedir() : "/tmp",
>
> This of course leads to interesting failure modes if the reader
> of the mail
> has a home directory that he doesn't have write permission to, or isn't
> mounted at the moment, or similar.
>
> Hint: How do you use Pine to send the sysadmin a "Help! /home didn't fsck
> right after the reboot" message in this scenario? ;)
> --
>                               Valdis Kletnieks
>                               Operating Systems Analyst
>                               Virginia Tech