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		<h1>The user-tmpfs program</h1>
		<p>
    		The user-tmpfs program prepares
    		a user owned tmpfs for
			the user defined in the <code>USER</code>
			environment variable.
			The user owned tmpfs is created at
       		<code><var>@tmpfsdir@</var>/<var>@usrrundir@</var>/<var>${USER}</var></code>.
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		<h2>Interface</h2>
		<pre>     user-tmpfs</pre>
		<ul>
			<li>
    			user-tmpfs takes no arguments.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It reads the <code>USER</code> environment variable,
				if it is empty it exits 100.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It reads the <code>USER_TMPFSDIR_SIZE</code> environment variable,
    			defaulting to <code>64m</code> if undefined.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It creates the directory
       			<code><var>@tmpfsdir@</var>/<var>@usrrundir@</var>/<var>${USER}</var></code>.
			</li>
			<li>
    			It mounts a tmpfs
    			of size <code>USER_TMPFSDIR_SIZE</code>
    			with its root owned bi <code>USER</code>
    			and mode <code>0755</code>
    			at <code><var>@tmpfsdir@</var>/<var>@usrrundir@</var>/<var>${USER}</var></code>.
			</li>
		</ul>
		<h2>Exit codes</h2>
		<ul>
			<li>
    			100 if a critical environment variable is missing.
			</li>
			<li>
    			Since user-tmpfs is an
				<a href="https://skarnet.org/software/execline/">execline</a>
				script, it exits with an approximation
				of employed program that failed.
			</li>
			<li>
    			user-tmpfs mostly uses
				<a href="https://skarnet.org/software/execline/">execline</a>
				and
				<a href="https://skarnet.org/software/s6/">s6</a>
				software, the exit behaviour of which can be looked up on
				their respective documentation.
			</li>
			<li>
    			See also:
				<a href="https://skarnet.org/software/execline/exitcodes.html">execline exit code handling</a>.
			</li>
		</ul>
		<h2>Options</h2>
		<ul>
			<li>
    			There are no otions to user-tmpfs.
			</li>
		</ul>
		<h2>Notes</h2>
		<p>
    		user-tmpfs is intended to be used in a boot time
    		<a href="//0x53.net/software/goetia/supervisiontree.html#system">system supervision tree</a>
    		oneshot service to prepare the
    		<a href="//0x53.net/software/goetia/rundir.html#user">user runtime directory</a>
    		of a user.
    		For each user who should have a user runtime directory,
    		there should be a distinct oneshot running user-tmpfs.
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		<p>
    		Alternatively, user-tmpfs could be run by a login manager
    		after login, but befor initiating the first
    		<a href="//0x53.net/software/goetia/supervisiontree.html#user">user supervision tree</a>.
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