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  1. Bug #1430620
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1430620

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Bryce Nesbitt (bryce2) wrote : Re: [Bug 1430620] Re: gnome-terminal writes excessively to /tmp (affecting SSD drives)

Swap is the equivalent of main memory: the security issues are no
different. Nobody can complain about swap written to disk, as that's a
risk for any piece of main memory at any time. Why turn things so far
upside down to support an edge case (infinite scrollback left open for long
periods of time)?