Hardcoded TMPDIR - anywhere else?

[Michael Schwendt]

Hello everyone!

I wonder whether any other application does a similar thing?
/usr/bin/firefox contains this nasty piece:

  ##
  ## Use $MOZ_TMPDIR if set. Otherwise use /var/tmp instead of /tmp
  ## because of 1GB /tmp limit in Fedora 18 and later.
  ## See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867073
  ##
  TMPDIR="${MOZ_TMPDIR:-/var/tmp}"
  export TMPDIR

Originally, it had hardcoded TMPDIR to /var/tmp already, overriding
the users TMPDIR setting (if any) - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/867073 -
and passing that altered env to programs it starts, too.

The Firefox source would respect TMPDIR, TEMP and TMP, then fall back
to /tmp if no env var is set.

Searching a bit in Fedora Wiki pages, I've found:
  
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs

> | My CD burning application writes huge .iso files to /tmp,
> | and this breaks on tmpfs!
> 
> The application should be fixed to use /var/tmp.

> | My application writes temporary files to /tmp and they are
> | gone after a reboot!
> 
> The application should be fixed to use /var/tmp. FHS recommends
> that /tmp is flushed on reboot, and that's what we do here. 

It is insane to hardcode /var/tmp. Also, GNOME Shell (F19) here
defaults to /tmp, and I guess other parts of the OS do too, not
only if they use glib2 (g_get_tmp_dir() or similar).

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