Re: Question coming from install of Firefox

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:08:46PM +0000, maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> There seems to be a weird edge case in NetBSD's sysinst where it defines
> a tmpfs at /tmp with a fixed size. I didn't get to it on my install.
> Maybe it's mis-configured to create a non-useful tmpfs?

Sysinst only adds tmpfs as /tmp if instructed so, and the size is offered
for editing.

Why is any compiler use /tmp for temporary files? It should be /var/tmp
(which usually is not size restrained).

Martin