[Cscope-devel] [ cscope-Feature Requests-3597850 ] cscope should use /var/tmp, instead of /tmp

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Feature Requests item #3597850, was opened at 2012-12-20 10:51
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Category: None
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Rejected
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Daniel Yek (danieyek)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: cscope should use /var/tmp, instead of /tmp

Initial Comment:
Fedora 18 Beta was mounting tmpfs on /tmp to, hopefully, reduce disk I/O and extend the life of SSD disks.

Since tmpfs was very limited in size, cscope ran out of space while indexing larger source tree.

I had to use:
  TMPDIR=/var/tmp cscope -b -q -k
to enable cscope to complete its indexing.

I think cscope should consider storing temp files in /var/tmp.

Please visit the following URLs for more information:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=826015

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/tmp.html

https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/940


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>Comment By: Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker)
Date: 2012-12-21 09:40

Message:
I have to refuse the notion that this is a bug.  For starters, /tmp has
been the official place for such files since the dawn of time.  If
distributors decide to break that now, that's their fault, not cscope's.

Second, there already is a simple, effective and documented way to get
around this: cscope respects $TMPDIR.  Case closed.

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