first off, the lock file is put in by an unprivileged user, so /tmp works
on all systems ...
second, /tmp on a large portion of systems gets cleaned out after a
reboot, so there are no 'stray locks' to generally worry about...
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:
> Florent Guillaume wrote:
> >
> > /tmp is for *temporary* files. Such a lock is not a temporary file, it
> > should go somewhere in /var, why not in /var/lib/pgsql/data ?
>
> /var/lib is also not for locks, per FHS.
>
> /var/lock/pgsql (or /var/lock/postgresql....) would be the FHS-mandated
> place for such a file.
>
> Comments? _Why_ is the lock in /tmp? Won't the lock always be put into
> place by the uid used to run postmaster? Is a _world_ writeable
> temporary directory the right place?
>
> 7.2 discussion, however, IMHO.
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> Lamar Owen
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