Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Using /var/tmp instead of /tmp

[Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:16:28PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2017, at 10:19 PM, Michał Łabędzki <michal.tomasz.labedzki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I also wonder why it is "/tmp" only. It should be configurable. It is
> > not good idea Defaults to "/tmp".
> 
> Whether it's a good idea or not is OS-dependent and installation-dependent:

An option would be OK, but personally I would change it back to /tmp.
My root filesystem (with /var/tmp) is located on an almost full SSD
while /tmp is a tmpfs with a size of 16G.
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Kind regards,
Peter Wu
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