this default/standard location /tmp is certainly inadmissible
If it is, then I guess you're arguing that /tmp shouldn't exist at all.
It exists, it has its purpose, and g-t uses that for that purpose.
If /tmp is inadmissible, what would be a better location? The user's
home, which potentially
gnome-terminal stores the scrollback content in a temporary file, opened
at the standard location which is /tmp by default, overridable with the
standard TMPDIR environment variable
this default/standard location /tmp is certainly inadmissible, since it's
an obvious welcome hackers breach.
The question is this: why does it overflow the / rather than the /home
partition?
gnome-terminal stores the scrollback content in a temporary file, opened
at the standard location which is /tmp by default, overridable with the
standard TMPDIR environment variable.
May be unlimited should be
the reason I think this is the unlimited gnome-terminal window is
this:
when I run the same application with
./app /dev/null
the / partition does not overflow
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