[Dune] [#958] do not write random files to the user's home directory

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FS#958 - do not write random files to the user's home directory
User who did this - Jö Fahlke (joe)

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.dune.resume is not a configuration file, but neither is it a temporary file. It is a file carrying program state from one run of a program to the next.  System services like daemons would keep files like this somewhere in the /var hierarchy.

There is also another reason not to put .dune.resume into /tmp: security.  Since /tmp is world-writable there are all kinds of funny races and attacks possible.  And since the resume file persists across program runs, the standard techniques for temporary files don't work here.  We don't want to open that can of worms.

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