> 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 lies on a networking filesystem and hence can be magnitudes slower than desired? > since it's an obvious welcome hackers breach. What do you mean by this? There are ways to safely open a file there (i.e. without race condition), and g-t does that. > Users should be restricted to use their own quotas, even for the g-t. By default, no user quotas are set up for /home or /tmp. Feel free to set up for both (if they are on separate partition – if they are on the same partition then it's one common quota that you need). > If there are thousands applications being regularly used on a system which behave similarly, should all of them be audited and reconfigured against such gotchas? Ideally, all of them should respect TMPDIR. If you want your temporary files to be opened in your home, set TMPDIR accordingly and you're done, but please don't claim it should be the default. Gnome-terminal needs a temporary file to store your unlimited scrollback. It opens it exactly at the standard location with can be altered via standard means. Sorry, I don't get you, what's your problem here? Are you arguing that the standard Unix file system layout is broken? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320157 Title: user space gnome-terminal overflows / file system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1320157/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
