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Bug#942051: debian-policy: [4.9] requirement to write only to /tmp, /var/tmp, ${TMPDIR} is too strict



On Wed, 09 Oct 2019 at 18:08:09 +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 05:51:53PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> > There are
> > other paths that should be fine to be written to during the build
> > process, for example /dev/shm
> 
> Do you have example of packages that does that ?

Anything that uses the POSIX shared memory API (shm_open()), and notably
anything that is built using fakeroot with its default fakeroot-sysv
backend.

    smcv


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