From: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:40:58 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: journal: when sending journal data via file, place it in /dev/shm, to allow early... 
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journal: when sending journal data via file, place it in /dev/shm, to allow early boot operation, even if it sucks
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diff --git a/src/journal/journal-send.c b/src/journal/journal-send.c
index 03bd1707..00029fe0 100644
--- a/src/journal/journal-send.c
+++ b/src/journal/journal-send.c
@@ -140,13 +140,16 @@ _public_ int sd_journal_sendv(const struct iovec *iov, int n) {
         int i, j = 0;
         struct msghdr mh;
         struct sockaddr_un sa;
-        char path[] = "/tmp/journal.XXXXXX";
         ssize_t k;
         union {
                 struct cmsghdr cmsghdr;
                 uint8_t buf[CMSG_SPACE(sizeof(int))];
         } control;
         struct cmsghdr *cmsg;
+        /* We use /dev/shm instead of /tmp here, since we want this to
+         * be a tmpfs, and one that is available from early boot on
+         * and where unprivileged users can create files. */
+        char path[] = "/dev/shm/journal.XXXXXX";
 
         if (!iov || n <= 0)
                 return -EINVAL;