Re: swap space

Steve Flynn wrote:

On Dec 19, 2007 6:35 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Steve Flynn wrote:
Don't share /tmp though.

Why not? What could be the problem? I always thought files in /tmp are
not guaranteed to be kept over reboots.

Thinking about it I can't remember to be honest. I tried this once
before and got some very strange problems in the second distribution
(Mandrake 5 if I recall correctly) when I booted into it after running
an ancient Debian installation.This was sometime around 2000/2001 so I
don't recall the specifics although I do recall it was because /tmp
wasn't being cleaned out on reboot... times may have changed since
then and this may no longer apply.

By definition /tmp/ should always be assumed (though not guaranteed) to be
empty after a boot. I _have_ seen apps that didn't handle that correctly,
but they are buggy...
--
derek


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