On Wednesday 28 March 2012, Frederic Crozat wrote:
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.
No, data which is not needed after reboot is wrong in /var/tmp. It's the decision of the data producer where to put it. Keep in mind that anyone who is writing to /tmp is doing this for a good reason. What you are trying to "fix" is "don't use /tmp because it's unusable now".
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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