After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 646493 - Please move /tmp/virtual-$USER.XXXXXX directories to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
Please move /tmp/virtual-$USER.XXXXXX directories to $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 646391
Product: gvfs
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: gvfs-maint
gvfs-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-04-01 23:29 UTC by Josh Triplett
Modified: 2011-04-05 06:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Josh Triplett 2011-04-01 23:29:17 UTC 
gvfs seems to create /tmp/virtual-$USER.XXXXXX directories for each user
at each login, and often leaves them around without cleaning them up.
(Right now I have piles of them just from the past month.)
These directories seem like a perfect fit for /var/run, rather than
/tmp.  Moving them there should not break anything, and should allow
them to get automatically cleaned up.  Furthermore, it reduces clutter
in /tmp.
Comment 1 Josh Triplett 2011-04-02 08:27:53 UTC 
A correction: this directory should move into $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR if set.  That variable will point to a user-writable (and user-specific) directory; if unset, gvfs can fall back to $TMPDIR or /tmp.
Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2011-04-05 06:51:03 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 646391 ***