Re: Using /var/tmp instead of /tmp

[Roland Knall <rknall () gmail com>]

Not sure why, because the two temp directories are different.

Judging by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

/tmp is usually purged during a reboot (at least you cannot expect to
survive it)
/var/tmp is not purged during a reboot

The Qt::Dir() related stuff is actually a bug and should default to the
wsutil function or at least the same g_get_tmp_dir, as Gtk and Qt might
have different methods of getting the tmp directory and by using a Qt
specific version this may lead to file polution.

I think using /var/tmp was a decision by the package developer for the
Fedora package. I honestly see no reasons behind that decision, except to
wanting to access the tmp files and making sure they stay around. But this
leads to an overly crowded /var/tmp after some time in my book, so I think
it actually should change back to /tmp

cheers
Roland

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Martin Sehnoutka <msehnout () redhat com>
wrote:

> What are the pros and cons of using /var/tmp instead of /tmp for Wireshark?
>
> In Fedora, there is this downstream patch, which makes Wireshark use
> /var/tmp:
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/wireshark.git/tree/
> wireshark-0008-move-default-temporary-directory-to-var-tmp.patch
> so I'm just wondering why is it Fedora specific.
>
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