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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Building Linux in /dev/shm
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2024 02:03:57 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 03:44:12 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <uvspab$2nk0a$1@dont-email.me>:

> On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 02:53:05 -0000 (UTC), vallor wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:50:03 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
>> <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote in
>> <uvrbur$2ae33$1@dont-email.me>:
>> 
>>> Isn't /tmp usually mounted as a ramdisk?
>> 
>> Some distros might do that.  Linux Mint doesn't, and I don't advise it.
> 
> It’s your choice. Stuff in /tmp is not expected to have a long lifetime.
> /var/tmp is for things you would like to last longer, but still aren’t
> that fussed about.
> 
> The whole point about temporary files is it’s not the end of the world
> if they get deleted.

ssh-agent's socket lives in a subdirectory in /tmp.  Really should live in
/run somewhere.  Looks like it can be steered by changing the TMPDIR
environment variable...

On our companies user-access shell server, each user has their own /tmp
in their own chroot.

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