Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>]

Le mardi 27 mars 2012 à 20:27 -0300, Claudio Freire a écrit :

> In low memory devices, with /tmp as tmpfs, think 1G, brasero, k3b and
> a few other programs, in their default configuration, would thrash.
> Those are blatantly wrong cases. But there are numerous gray cases.
> Python's tempfile module creates, by default, files in /tmp. I would
> bet tons of python apps, thus, misuse /tmp.

We should fix those "known" programs to use /var/tmp instead of /tmp
anyway. 

> And this is assuming users can override this decision and use a
> regular filesystem as /tmp.

As I wrote in my initial email (but few people read it completely
apparently), it is possible..

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE

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