Re: CVS commit: src/external/gpl3

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 03:45:41PM +0000, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> Module Name:	src
> Committed By:	jakllsch
> Date:		Mon Aug 10 15:45:40 UTC 2015
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	src/external/gpl3/binutils/dist/libiberty: make-temp-file.c
> 	src/external/gpl3/gcc/dist/libiberty: make-temp-file.c
> 	src/external/gpl3/gdb/dist/libiberty: make-temp-file.c
> 
> Log Message:
> Correct temporary directory preference order in libiberty's choose_tmpdir().
> 
> Because it is intended to be persistent, /var/tmp is about the worst possible
> choice for temporary files for most users of libiberty.  /tmp works better,
> because the the defined semantics of /tmp allow for a non-persistent tmpfs
> to be used.  This should improve performance when /tmp is a tmpfs and it is
> difficult or impossible to have an environment variable or command line -pipe
> flag passed to every piece of the toolchain.

Historically /tmp was likely to be small.
That is why /var/tmp exists, and is probably why the compiler defaults
to /var/tmp.
The system should probably clean 'turds' from both /tmp and /var/tmp.

	David

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