Bug 895444

tmp-on-tmpfs is fundamentally broken, so this doesn't
exactly surprise.

Well, why argue now when it was already approved and included in F18? As I understand the "official" way is to use /var/tmp.

(In reply to Victor V. Shkamerda from comment #2)
> Well, why argue now when it was already approved and included in F18?

because each decision can be reconsidered and reverted

I've just hit this issue too, thanks Lennart for taking away about an hour of my life spent by trying to figure out what's wrong with my system, why trivial operations are failing ...

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ping, just hit this again, "very nice" to see things failing (like bash completion etc.) just because I've tried to view a file while not noticing that its size exceeds half of my RAM ...

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ping, I've just got trapped again ... copying a few gigabytes over slow network, left that overnight, just to find out in the morning that it got stuck right in the begining because of mc's unability to store a file in /tmp

rvokal, please please PLEASE! do something about it - could you assign this to someone new if jnovy is gone? (yeah, this is Fedora, not RHEL, but anyways ... I still have some reward points to spend ... ;-))

I believe the following would be enough to do the trick:

--- lib/global.h~       2016-09-22 20:24:12.000000000 +0200
+++ lib/global.h        2016-12-09 11:34:47.376367101 +0100
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@
 #define PATH_SEP_STR "/"
 #define IS_PATH_SEP(c) ((c) == PATH_SEP)
 #define PATH_ENV_SEP ':'
-#define TMPDIR_DEFAULT "/tmp"
+#define TMPDIR_DEFAULT "/var/tmp"
 #define SCRIPT_SUFFIX ""
 #define get_default_editor() "vi"
 #define OS_SORT_CASE_SENSITIVE_DEFAULT 1

I pushed the patch from comment 10 to Rawhide in
mc-4.8.18-3.fc26

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=16805614

thanks, verified, copied files are stored in /var/tmp/mc-$USER/ now