bazelbuild
Please rename TEST_TMPDIR to TMPDIR, and set it for all actions
Description of the feature request:
Right now we have TEST_TMPDIR. Unfortunately almost no software out there respects that environment variable. Meanwhile a lot of software does respect plain TMPDIR.
In addition to that, we don't set this environment variable for plain build actions. This leads to many people writing actions that write straight into /tmp. If an action times out or gets killed, it may not clean up the files it leaves behind. This leads to systems running Bazel gradually running out of disk space.
If Bazel is smart enough to create a temporary directory for test actions, why can't it do it for all actions?
Which category does this issue belong to?
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What underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?
Computers running out of disk space.
Which operating system are you running Bazel on?
macOS
What is the output of bazel info release?
A recent one
If bazel info release returns development version or (@non-git), tell us how you built Bazel.
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What's the output of git remote get-url origin; git rev-parse HEAD ?
Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?
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Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?
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I submitted https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/pull/27863 which at least adds this for test targets.
