As in "I have ties older than your /tmp".

On 7 December 2014 at 05:29, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 5:22 AM, <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
>
>> 40 years on, you'd think someone would deal with it.
>
>
> The point I was trying to make is that it was realised early on (eg, when
> time-sharing at universities)
> that a shared /tmp was a problem. Hacks such as +s or special schemes for
> allocating files don't really
> address the problem.
>
> Now look at that number: 40. Four decades. During that time there has been
> any amount of foolish
> crud added to this or that kernel, distribution ,graphics subsystem,
> standards, ... but instead of fixing
> it after 4 0 years, we get notes explaining that it's the application's
> business, in this case the shell,
> or perhaps the underlying library, to try to address "security issues"
> instead of fixing it, once for all.
> After 40 years (more than a generation).
>