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On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 07:41:21AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote: > If you were going to do it right here's what you would do: > > People who had files in /tmp would have no rights at all to other users > /tmp files. > Listing the dirtectory would only display the files you had some access > to. If you have no rights you don't even see that the file is there. > The effect would be like giving people their own tmp directories. ahh, *sigh*, i remember the days. in 1989 i looked in /tmp on our sunos 4.1.3 server at imperial, which was running a bit slow, went "eek, that's a lot of files in /tmp" and did am rm -fr /tmp. a few minutes later the sysadmins quite literally stormed in. apparently the printer queue temp files were stored in /tmp and 100 third year students were all trying to print out their course-work, last minute. oops. yes, imperial college third year theory of computing students of 1987-1990, it was me. l. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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