134524 - bad use of /tmp directory when downloading big files

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 69938

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[J.Shterev]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020328
BuildID:    2002032808

Here is what i got: 
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3             2.5G  2.3G  227M  91% /
/dev/hda2              23M  690k   20M   4% /boot
/dev/hda1             1.9G  1.9G   94M  96% /win1
/dev/hda6             2.4G  1.9G  562M  78% /win2
/dev/hda7             2.4G  972M  1.4G  40% /usr/local

As you see, I have plenty of space on my /win2 partition, so I'm downloading a
file (400MB)  on this partition. Anyway, mozilla still tries to save a tmp file
in the /tmp dir, where I obviously do not have enough space, and it aborts the
download when the / dir (where the /tmp dir lives) gets full. 
There should be at least option, not to write temporary files, i think

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to download a file bigger then the free space on the partition where /tmp
lives
2. 
3.

Expected Results:  Do not use tmp files.

Comment 1

[Sebastian Biallas]

See also bug 129923 for a list of all (bad) uses of /tmp directory (as well as
problems with low disk space).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69938 ***

Comment 2

[Stephen Walker]

vrfy dup