u...@stderr.spb.ru (Valery Ushakov) writes: > Greg Troxel <g...@lexort.com> wrote: > >> It seems that long long ago, /tmp was small and on /, and /var was often >> bigger, and people used /var/tmp for larger stuff. Also I remember a >> notion of clearing /tmp on boot and not clearing /var/tmp. Now, /tmp >> is a tmpfs and large/fast, and the right place for things that really >> belong in /tmp. > > That's true for some people/systems. Not true for others.
A fair point, but I think it's also a reasonable expectation that you have to have a /tmp that's big enough for what you want to do, vs the expectation that programs that use space use some other tmp by default. > libiberty does check TMPDIR as the very first thing. If the build > breaks that, may be the build should be fixed? And, I agree that programs that use /tmp or especially programs that use a lot of tmp space, should respect TMPDIR. But here, I think we're talking about changing the OS default in stdio that /tmp is the default place, absent config, and by omission it sounds like you are ok with that? \
