[tex-live] tl-install of 2016-pretest: litter in /tmp

[Zdenek Wagner]

2016-05-14 22:10 GMT+02:00 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:

> On 2016-05-14 at 17:42:32 +0200, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > /tmp is not a good place, in some Linux distros /tmp lives in tmpfs
>  > which is a small and expensive place. If they are not removed
>  > immediately after use, they may cause problems. Before I bought a
>  > new computer with a lot of memory, I modified the unit file to
>  > limit /tmp to 256MB, now the limit is 1GB. /var/tmp will probably
>  > be better if a lot of temporary files should live for a longer
>  > period of time.
>
> The proper place on Unix is $TMPDIR.  No program should use hard-coded
> paths here.  The TeX Live installer is using /tmp only as a fallback
> if $TMPDIR is not set.
>

Thank you, I have TMPDIR=/var/tmp in my computers.

>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
>



Zdeněk Wagner
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