200187 - Downloading file consumes space in /tmp and cache

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 55690

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Doug Chan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030319
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030319

When downloading a file (http download), disk space is consumed in the partition
which contains the Cache directory (as to be expected!), but also in /tmp (some
file name like 'xq2k7lss.exe' is created).

This creates a problem when downloading large files such as .iso CD images since
/tmp is generally not big enough for such operations.

This is reproducible under with mozilla-1.3 on Solaris 8 and on Linux (RH 8)
when download a CD-ROM image, say from RedHat.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to rhn.redhat.com, select the Software tab, select instant ISO.
2. Download any large .iso file.
3. Do a 'df -v', wait, repeat 'df -v' again... notice disk space consumed
   on user partition (where the cache is located) but also consumed on /tmp or
   / (depending on weather Solaris or Linux).

Actual Results:  
In my case, the download completes but fails to create the destination file.
A pop-up window tells me that there is not enough disk space when in
actuality there is plenty of disk space for the cache file & destination file.

Expected Results:  
Why is a file created in /tmp & the cache?
The temporary file should only appear in the cache directory.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

dupe of bug 55960 (see bug 69938 why)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55960 ***

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Jo: Are you sure that this is the correct bug# for duping ?

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

Ah no, it's the wrong one. Sorry.

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 55690 ***

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

verified.