On Mon, 06 Feb 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > arbitrarily large files (in my workflow, 5-100 GB) in /tmp, which is on > > > the root filesystem.
Well, that is Seriously Broken, and it needs fixing. And it is not a wishlist bug either. We've been through a thread about this rather recently. There are no excuses for any application to assume it can dump arbritarily large crap into /tmp and _not_ use $TMPDIR or some other method to configure where to place large files. > And how about having /tmp in tmpfs, so that it is limited to a > fraction of the size of memory? No application should assume that it > can store working files of arbitrary size in /tmp. Exactly. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120207025233.ga31...@khazad-dum.debian.net
