Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-vgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!brl-vgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: /tmp and /usr/tmp Message-ID: <2754@brl-vgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 18:07:24 EST Article-I.D.: brl-vgr.2754 Posted: Tue Mar 20 18:07:24 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 04:56:48 EST References: <4432@amd70.UUCP>, <3566@utcsrgv.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 6 /tmp is usually fast but rather small, /usr/tmp is better for large temp files such as those used by rasterizers. The library routines described in TMPNAM(3S) use P_tmpdir defined in, usually /usr/tmp. The tempnam() function is especially nice in that it lets one change the temp file directory at runtime via an environment variable $TMPDIR. I encourage everyone to use tempnam().