Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > Darren J Moffat wrote:
> > > - A modification to "/etc/profile" (and the matching csh file) to set
> > > TMPDIR
> > > to "/tmp/${LOGNAME}" if TMPDIR was not set yet.
> >
> > Note that this will move the default location used for files
> > created with tempnam() etal. from the on-disk /var/tmp to the
> > tmpfs /tmp. Does anything depend on being able to access
> > such files across reboots (like editor autosave/recovery) ?
>
> AFAIK no since APIs like |tmpfile()| and |tmpnam()| are for temporary
> data only and they should not be used for permanent storage (e.g. AFAIK
> it is a bug when applications would use these APIs for storing permanent
> data).
Storing larger amounts of data in /var/tmp is a relict from older UNIX
releases and not longer correct since 1988 when tmpfs was introduced.
In former times, peole did tend to put larger anout of data in /var/tmp
but this is no longer a good idea since tmpfs results in typically
large amounts of fast storage to be available in /tmp.
J?rg
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