Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Richard Guenther <rguenther@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Frederic Crozat wrote:

> Le mercredi 28 mars 2012 à 11:41 -0300, Claudio Freire a écrit :
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:38 AM, Jos Poortvliet <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > In short, I would STRONGLY recommend against mounting /tmp tmpfs. That 
> > > ONLY
> > > works for advanced users as they can fix the resulting problems 
> > > themselves.
> > > Anyone who keeps their PC on for a longer period of time will see that
> > > folder grow and grow and grow. Eating memory instead of diskspace is bad 
> > > in
> > > itself, running out of space there is worse...
> >
> > I recommend the opposite. I recommend doing this move with a small
> > tmpfs early in the release cycle, so that testers can weed out
> > misbehaving apps (like gimp). Those apps should be using /var/tmp.
>
> To be more precise, Lennart (systemd author) has put some developer
> oriented informations about /tmp in a post blog : 
>
> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/tmp.html

Hmm.

  6. Otherwise use $TMPDIR with a fallback on /var/tmp. Also use 
mkstemp()/mkdtemp().

that's what the GCC case applies to.  Which means $TMPDIR be better
_not_ /tmp.

?

Richard.

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