On Vi, 05 apr 13, 14:48:44, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 08:38:30 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > + Applications which create excessively large temporary files always > > + only in <filename class='directory'>/tmp</filename> while not > > + honoring <literal>TMPDIR</literal> may cause > > + <filename class='directory'>/tmp</filename> to run out of free space. > > + Such applications should not force to use > > + <filename class='directory'>/tmp</filename>, and require fixing. > > + Please consider filing a bug report against the application in > > + question if you experience such an occurrence. > > Two comments: > - I don't think the last two sentences are particularly helpful in the > RN, so I'd drop them > - I'm confused by the bit about TMPDIR, since we don't say anything > about setting that variable anywhere, so even if an app obeys TMPDIR > if it's set, it'll still fill up /tmp by default. I'd reword it slightly: Applications which create excessively large temporary files may cause /tmp to run out of free space. It should possible to configure a different location for those files by setting the TMPDIR environment variable. Applications that don't honour TMPDIR and don't have any other means to configure the destination of temporary files require fixing. Please consider filing a bug report against the application in question if you experience such an occurrence. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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