Re: Bug#690360: konsole: temprorary data should go to /var/tmp
On Sunday 14 October 2012 02:21 AM, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: This would defeat the idea of having /tmp on ram! Yes. But it is unclear on how to handle applications that could be writing ever growing data. An email client should open the file 'rw' in /tmp when it is formatting the email before the final send. But writing an increasing data file, like a console screen log, in /tmp should be incorrect. There's no clear guideline on what should go into /tmp/. And anyway at the end it was agreed to keep /tmp on disk by default on new installations. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Bug#690360: konsole: temprorary data should go to /var/tmp
On Monday 15 October 2012 09.49.37 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: On Sunday 14 October 2012 02:21 AM, Salvo Tomaselli wrote: This would defeat the idea of having /tmp on ram! Yes. But it is unclear on how to handle applications that could be writing ever growing data. True. But for now the standard on new installations is to have /tmp on disk. If someone changes it, then it's his business to deal with the consequences. -- Salvo Tomaselli signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Bug#690360: konsole: temprorary data should go to /var/tmp
On Saturday 13 October 2012 10.05.15 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Given that all are moving in the direction of having /tmp on tmpfs, should applications be fixed? From what I recollect from the last discussion on this topic, it was agreed that /tmp is for temporary files with no guarantee to be available. For this explanation, there is no breakage currently. This would defeat the idea of having /tmp on ram! And anyway at the end it was agreed to keep /tmp on disk by default on new installations. -- Salvo Tomaselli signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
