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

[Jan Kundrát]

On Wednesday, 10 April 2013 20:15:26 CEST, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> When tmpfs is a ramdisk it is fast *but* limited to ram+swap size. So on
> current systems it is quite easy to saturate it with a few files in the
> hundred megs/gigabyte size.

Do such systems point their $TMPDIR into a ramdisk-backed location? If they do, do they also offer another place with more available space? How can one access that place?

With kind regards,
Jan

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