Customizible temporary directory

hoffmangroup / genomedata

The Genomedata format for storing large-scale functional genomics data.

https://genomedata.hoffmanlab.org/

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Customizible temporary directory #53

Closed EricR86 closed 4 years ago

EricR86 commented 4 years ago

Original report (archived issue) by John Ma (Bitbucket: john_ma).

Currently genomedata-load writes temporary files to /tmp. However, this isn’t always the most appropriate place to write temporary files to, especially in multi-user environments. Is it possible to allow the user to specify their temporary directories?

EricR86 commented 4 years ago

Original comment by Eric Roberts (Bitbucket: ericr86, GitHub: ericr86).

changed state from "new" to "resolved"

Use the TMPDIR environment variable to point at a directory you wish to use instead. As an aside, we highly recommend to avoid NFS mounts if possible especially on a multi user environment.

If for some reason Genomedata does not respect TMPDIR in some fashion, please let us know!