Paul Jakma wrote:
>> Or, in other words, maybe the real fix here is to fix Mozilla (etc) to
>> default their download dirs to $HOME/Downloads :-)
>
> /tmp/$LOGNAME/ would have my vote over anything under $HOME.
Seriously, why is
change TMPDIR to be /tmp/$LOGNAME
better than
Fix the web browser to download things into $HOME/Downloads
by default (instead ot dumping things directly into $TMPDIR)
If I'm downloading something valuable, I'm going to need to copy it out of
TMPDIR anyways, and any cost of doing the initial write()s to $HOME instead
of $TMPDIR pales next to the cost of having to invoke "cp $TMPDIR/foo $HOME".
And, if I'm not going to keep it, as long as the browser cleans up after
itself, I shouldn't care what happens behind the scenes
Unless you are seriously implying that (potential) NFS access to $HOME
is the performance bottleneck in downloading and viewing a PDF file from
the web? If so, it sounds like the admin has bigger problems to solve
than simple modifications to TMPDIR can solve.
-John
