On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 09:40:05AM -0800, Derek Zhou wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > > > No! /tmp is for temporary files which are SMALL. > Depends on how you define small. For example, k3b uses /tmp to store the > image before burning the cd-r and there is no obvious way to change it.
It's broken then. Nothing should be putting CD images in /tmp. That's a textbook example of what /var/tmp is for. It also won't work on a stock install of most linux platforms these days, which use tmpfs - few enough boxes can fit an entire CD image into memory. > If your /tmp is so small that can't even accomodate one temporary source > tree, lots of software will fail. Utter nonsense. I routinely limit /tmp to 32Mb of tmpfs. Nothing of note breaks. > > It is frequently held in memory and will not accomodate things like > > entire source trees. If you desperately need large working space on > > the local filesystem, that's /var/tmp, but you should really be > > working in . wherever possible. > . is bad because it is arbitrary. You don't want to litter arbitrary > place, don't you? . is where the user expects it to go. That's why they're in that directory. That's how unix has *always* worked; stuff goes into . unless you explicitly tell it to go someplace else. It's not "arbitrary", it's "doing what you're told to". > > That goes doubly for anybody who thinks they can get away with putting > > revision libraries in /tmp. Your sysadmin will come over to your house > > and kill you slowly with a rusty spoon. > I have been doing this for monthes, don't see that coming :) It is a > personal choice to put revlib in /tmp. I use debian too and debian also > provide tmpreaper. tmpreaper is to clean up stale locks and stuff like that. People caught *filling* /tmp get their accounts deleted, because they broke the box. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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