8.2.2p5 questions
Joseph S D Yao
jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Sat Jan 8 00:35:57 UTC 2000
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 11:57:22PM +0000, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> You have a strange Solaris 2.x setup. Out of the box Solaris uses
> free memory as swap and in turn makes /tmp a tmpfs filesystem
> using what it scavanged from freemem. For example, /etc/vfstab
> has the following line:
>
> swap - /tmp tmpfs - yes -
Exactly right. Now let me ask you, how would you like a user to be
able to deny you the ability to run a large program, or otherwise
swapbind your system, by making a huge temporary file? I don't
consider this change that Sun made the smartest thing it ever did.
> Now if you have changed any of these on your systems, good but the
> user doesn't have your depth of knowledge and thus could easily be
> misled.
Well, the same is true of what you had said. ;-) I tend to allow for
other people's changing things. I suppose partly because I do.
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Joe Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
COSPO/OSIS Computer Support EMT-B
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