On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 02:40:06PM +1000, matthew green wrote: > hi folks. > > > a very long time ago in netbsd years tls@ patched GCC to use > /tmp over /var/tmp, for the compiler temporaries. > > i tried to keep these patches, but they got lost at some > point and when i recently wanted to deal with it (i had one > machine with some several hundred /var/tmp/cc*.o files that > were mostly over a year old), i discovered it's not nearly > as simple as a quick patch. > > most of the toolchain consumers that create temp files don't > use $TMPDIR from the env but use stdio.h's P_tmpdir defintion
Well, this is... well... I'm embarassed I missed it. I think you should change it now. Only thing to watch out for I suppose is that vi's expectation of where vi.recover goes doesn't change -- though that should never have even been in /var/tmp in the first place. Thor
