On Thursday 30 November 2000 12:11, Cyril Rotmistrovsky wrote:
> Package: kde
> Version: v1.9.8 (KDE 2.0)
> Severity: normal
> Compiler: gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
> OS: Linux 2.2.14 i686 (compiled sources)
>
> Hi!
>
> KDE temporary files are created under home directory (in
> ~/.kde/tmp-$HOSTNAME). I think, that it is totally wrong!  I don't need
> these files to be backuped by dump, for example, or overflow my quota for
> /home filesystem.
>
> Why not a $TMPDIR/.kde/$HOSTNAME/?

Let me answer that one as well :-)

Because of the braindead way the average Unix system shares $TMPDIR between 
all users. Go to http://lwn.net/2000/1130/security.php3 and count how many 
programs have tempfile security problems.

Cheers,
Waldo