[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#530575: Bug#530575: Please change TMPTIME to >0

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> [2009.05.26.0737 +0200]:
> This is by design.  /tmp/ is for temporary data that can and should be
> removed every boot, while /var/tmp/ is foor temporary data that should
> survive reboots.

Yes, sure, I've read the FHS. But that doesn't help those users of
programmes storing files-in-progress in /tmp (mutt, iceweasel to
some extent, openoffice, and some others), whose laptop dies or
turns itself off when the battery is low.

Arguably, those programmes should be fixed, and I am writing a bug
report against mutt right now to default to /var/tmp, but is "by
design" really enough of an argument to put our users' data at risk
until those tools are all fixed?

What would be the disadvantages of setting TMPTIME to 1 or 2?

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