On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com> wrote: > > Ghee: > >>>>> What we need to do is change the default TMPDIR on OpenSolaris to be >>>>> /tmp. >>>> >>>> I think that is a great suggestion. Do you know who own TMPDIR to make >>>> the change? >> >> Anyone know the package that own TMPDIR? > > TMPDIR is an environment variable. ?I don't think any one package owns > it. ?For example, the glib/gutils.c file references the TEMPDIR, TMP, > and TEMP directories. ?I believe this is what is used by the gvfs > temporary files. ?So, I think our team owns how glib behaves in > relation to TMPDIR. >
here (opensolaris) TEMPDIR, TMP, TEMP are not defined. so glib will use P_tmpdir (/var/tmp) see: line 1524-: http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/glib/trunk/glib/gutils.c >>> Some programs which use TMPDIR may depend on the fact that /var/tmp >>> is persistent across reboots. >> >> Do you particular things in mind? > > No I am not aware of any specific issues. ?I would just expect that > we would need to do some testing, ARC review, etc. before making an > interface change like this. ?It seems like the kind of change that > could have unexpected ramifications, even if they are bugs. > well i think no need to change things. applications should remove stuff if they dont need them, so we should file bugs against them, and some applications need more space for temp stuff.. so /var/tmp is the right place > Brian > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -- Andy http://blog.sartek.net
