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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Using /tmp is a bad idea
From:       David Foster <fosterda () bellatlantic ! net>
Date:       2001-12-30 11:58:31
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On Sat, Dec 29, 2001 at 03:44:57PM -0800, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Saturday 29 December 2001 08:43 am, Jason Stephenson wrote:
> > The problem is that it was trying to write to /tmp, which on my system is
> > not on its own file system. I haven't dived too deep into the Konqueror
> > code to know exactly what all it is doing in /tmp, but to my mind, using
> > /tmp is a bad idea.
> 
> On a system with a disk-space-challenged /tmp directory you can remove the 
> $KDEHOME/tmp-$HOSTNAME symlink and create a directory there instead.

Or set KDETMP to put the directory wherever you want.  

As for the topic of this thread, KDE apps should probably be using the
"tmp" resource rather than just assuming /tmp anyway.  In fact, the
docs for KTempFile state that explicitly.

 
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