On 26/04/07, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote: > 3. There is no guarantee that TMPDIR will exist at any time - > it could be deleted after login causing applications to fail.
Users will likely already have problems if the contents of TMPDIR is randomly deleted. GNOME, as an example, will misbehave. > 5. Having run large multiuser systems, this proposal is unlikely > to help - most of the clutter in /tmp was due to manual actions > by users rather than applications using TMPDIR. I disagree. The number of temporary files from desktop GUI applications is only increasing. > Based on my experience, if the aim is to reduce clutter in /tmp > then this proposal will not do so. And if there is a problem with > applications leaving debris in $TMPDIR, then those applications > should be fixed. It's nice to say those applications should be fixed, but since we are not the ones in control of all the applications that are used... -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
