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257 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 12:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.304s | source
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Aardwolf ◴[22 Oct 24 13:11 UTC] No.41913873[source]▶
I like /tmp in RAM myself, it's truly temporary that way

EDIT: I do this more for avoiding certain disk reads/writes than security actually

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noirscape ◴[22 Oct 24 13:16 UTC] No.41913918[source]▶
It's also the default on most distros these days since it means /tmp is always wiped on every reboot. (For a programming side, this also means that if you write a file to /tmp, it'll probably have the fastest read/write speed you can find on the OS, which can be desirable.)
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1. rurban ◴[22 Oct 24 20:07 UTC] No.41918164[source]▶
I prefer the explicit /dev/shm for this.