The shared XTC cache in /tmp is a problem on machines with multiple users. The first, insecure, solution is to make the xtc cache is a special directory (like /tmp). The second solution is to use a user specific directory, for example /tmp/$USER or some directory in $HOME. However, this is a problem with Nix: a builder can probably not access the current user name …

Submitted on 16 January 2006 at 11:59

On 17 January 2006 at 17:00 Jira commented:

DRY-212, martin:

The XTC cache is obsolete.

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