[RFC] XDG_RUNTIME_DIR

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Thu Nov 11 10:22:33 PST 2010


Le jeudi 11 novembre 2010 à 00:18 +0100, Thiago Macieira a écrit :
> On Wednesday, 10 de November de 2010 22:17:40 Ryan Lortie wrote:
> > /tmp is also often used to store "largeish" things like downloads in
> > progress.
> 
> I've had /tmp in tmpfs for over 4 years now and I barely ever needed it 
> extended. I think the only app that did need it was the VMWare Server, because 
> it used a file in /tmp as swap memory. So from experience, tmpfs /tmp works 
> just fine for normal use.

Some big proprietary apps (O****e) have gigs of /tmp as installation
requirement

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot



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