Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 16:24:47 +0100
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>, 7eggert@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what's next for the linux kernel?
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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.

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