2009/4/22 Andras Barna <andras.barna at gmail.com>:
> 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

I agree!
It should be the application doing the clean up.

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