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Re: devfs and tmpfs



On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 12:58:16PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
| begin  dman  quotation:
| > On Sun, Mar 31, 2002 at 10:30:44PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
| >
| > | I remember an irate poster a while back coming at the list with "what
| > | gives you the right to delete my data?!" after having stored a bunch of
| > | stuff in /tmp and losing it across a reboot. It was sort of amusing,
| > | especially when he realized that he was in an entirely ridiculous
| > | position and that no amount of SCREAMING at a bunch of strangers would
| > | bring his data back.
| > 
| > I remember that guy.  He had some trouble understanding that /tmp is
| > for temporary stuff and $HOME is for doing work.
| 
| If you're thinking of the same incident that I remember,

Probably.

| then it is worth noting that that poster has subsequently proven to
| be a worthwhile member of the community.

That's great!

| I won't mention his name,

I don't rememer it.  Doesn't matter anyways.

-D

-- 

The truly righteous man attains life,
but he who pursues evil goes to his death.
        Proverbs 11:19


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