[Nottingham] any issues symlinking /tmp -> /var/tmp ?

[Robert Hart]

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 08:40 +0100, Michael Erskine wrote:

> By chance I saw Robert Postill yesterday and he suggested mounting /tmp 
> and /var/tmp from elsewhere over the top of the existing /tmp (as per 
> Solaris) in which case, running processes needn't be disrupted.

That still causes problems for processes that create sockets in /tmp
that expect other processes to be able to find them. I think X and some
sound servers like esd might do this.

Rob

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Robert Hart <enxrah at nottingham.ac.uk>
University of Nottingham


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