Direct-opening a temporary file using the user's preferred application

[Thomas Kluyver]

On 3 April 2013 15:42, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:

> You definitely should not save it in /tmp as it might be mounted as
> tmpfs.
>

I'm curious as to why this is such a bad idea - I'm used to browsers and
e-mail clients putting things in /tmp if I select 'Open' rather than
'Save'. For instance, I've just tested in current Firefox: when I tell it
to open a PDF in the default viewer, it downloads it to /tmp and opens
that. This seems like the sort of thing that /tmp is there for.

Thomas
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