Re: Should /tmp be world writable?
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 05:05:27PM +0200, Romain Lerallut wrote:
> Thus spake Colin Watson on Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 06:55:08AM -0500:
> > I've heard of this happening before. If you manage to track it down to a
> > particular package, please make sure a bug is filed against it.
>
> Couldn't that be turned into a lintian test ?
> ( and of course, 'if not , why ?' :)
Only base-files should be creating /tmp. I think it's really up to the
maintainer of that package, personally. (There might already be a
lintian test for other packages creating /tmp - not sure.)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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