Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

[Tomasz Kłoczko]

On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 grundig@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> El Thu, 6 Oct 2005 00:23:30 +0100,
> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@xxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
> >  there are a lot of legacy apps that no-one wants to modify to get them
> >  to create/read /tmp/x-windows/.X11-unix.
>
> What's the point of caring about security for a legacy app if nobody
> is going to fix it if a security problema arises?
>
>
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/admin/libpam-tmpdir
>
> is good enought IMO

BTW. Also it will be good say something about storing unix sockets by 
system programs (/tmp/x-windows/.X11-unix which is owned by root.root) in 
/tmp.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#REQUIREMENTS14
says about /var/run:
"System programs that maintain transient UNIX-domain sockets must place 
them in this directory."

kloczek
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