Re: ORBit-like /tmp functions

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>]

Le mar 03/08/2004 à 21:43, Federico Mena Quintero a écrit :
> On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 09:48 +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> 
> > Another potential problem is when /tmp is not readable (don't laugh, we
> > have this settings in paranoia mode), which can cause nice crash in
> > either GTK+ or ORBit :)
> 
> 1. Does this setting make sense?  Why would you not want /tmp to be
> readable?

It is for a "paranoia" setting.. I'm not sure it make sense on a
standard system but on a highly secured system, it might (I'm not a
security expert, I just got the bug report caused by this setting). In
short, it is best to have code being able to cope with this situation.

> 2. What would happen if GConf just stored its lock and IOR file in
> ~/.gconfd/something?  Is there a special reason why it uses /tmp?

Well, for Mdk, I've been forced to move TMPDIR for gconf from $HOME/tmp
(ie $TMPDIR) to /tmp otherwise gconf was failing for users with home on
NFS with multiple logins (it is a known problem, IIRC).

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat mandrakesoft com>
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