Re: [bug-inetutils] tests/syslogd.sh and /tmp

[Mats Erik Andersson]

onsdag den 18 januari 2012 klockan 22:46 skrev Ludovic Courtès detta:
> Hello,
> 
> Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> skribis:
> 
> > but
> > run it for every POSIX system, which NixOS clearly does not bother even
> > to approximate.
> 
> Thank-you-very-much, but NixOS happens to be the name of a *GNU/Linux* distro.

In that case,  the elimination of "/tmp/" is in violation of FHS,
thus is an equally absurd setting. Personally I find it a riddle
how NixOS is able to test anything reliably when not providing
a writable "/tmp/". There must be thousands of software archives
that need such a resource. The standard, as far as I recall, is that
"/tmp/" must be provided as fall-back for any software that does
not acknowledge the use of an environmental variable TMPDIR.