An arbitrarily sized /tmp does not fit all

Lars Kellogg-Stedman lars at oddbit.com
Fri Dec 21 20:08:08 UTC 2012


On 2012-12-21, John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon.com> wrote:
>> Brasero should be checking the size beforehand, checking available
>> writable-by-user space, 
>
> including shell environment variable TMPDIR (colon-separated list of directories)

According to mktemp(1), TMPDIR is a single directory, not a
colon-separated list.  But otherwise, yes, it would be nice if
everything would respect TMPDIR.




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