[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: [uml-devel] [Pkg-uml-pkgs] How is user-mode-linux using /dev/shm/?

[Jeff Dike]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 07:46:01PM +0200, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> Thinking of a Debian only fix for the above, does simply playing with
> default_tmpdir in arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c (probably in which_tmpdir())
> suffice to use /lib/init/rw/.ramfs as default?
> 
> (Yes I should try it... will try to find some time next week)

What difference would this make?  You still have some world-writable place
not mounted noexec that nasty people could try to take advantage of.  You're
just changing the name of that place.

				Jeff