tests: use /var/tmp by default

On Fedora, /tmp is tmpfs, which behaves differently than ext4
(inode numbers are never reused, for example).

Use /var/tmp, which is ext4 on Fedora, to get a more realistic
test environment.

This also allows us to drop the xattr workaround.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/tests/test_helpers/helpers.go b/tests/test_helpers/helpers.go
index df71e52..17d2f98 100644
--- a/tests/test_helpers/helpers.go
+++ b/tests/test_helpers/helpers.go
@@ -44,14 +44,6 @@ var DefaultPlainDir string
 // DefaultCipherDir is TmpDir + "/default-cipher"
 var DefaultCipherDir string
 
-// SwitchTMPDIR changes TMPDIR and hence the directory the test are performed in.
-// This is used when you want to perform tests on a special filesystem. The
-// xattr tests cannot run on tmpfs and use /var/tmp instead of /tmp.
-func SwitchTMPDIR(newDir string) {
-	os.Setenv("TMPDIR", newDir)
-	doInit()
-}
-
 func init() {
 	doInit()
 }