Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Timo Juhani Lindfors writes ("Re: /tmp as tmpfs and consequence for imaging software"):
> That does not seem to be so easy:
> http://www.gnu.org/ghm/2011/paris/slides/jim-meyering-goodbye-world.pdf

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=28251
 bug in libc which libc maintainers don't want to fix even though
 there's a tested patch

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=28250
 effects on perl, which maintainers think is bug in libc

Result: DATA LOSS BUG, still present THIRTEEN YEARS LATER:

mariner:~/junk> echo hi >t
mariner:~/junk> perl -pe '1;' <t >/dev/full
mariner:~/junk> echo $?
0

Ian.