Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utcsrgv.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsrgv!dave From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: /tmp and /usr/tmp Message-ID: <3566@utcsrgv.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Mar-84 00:11:55 EST Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.3566 Posted: Mon Mar 19 00:11:55 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 08:32:55 EST References: <4432@amd70.UUCP> Organization: The Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto Lines: 10 The existence of /tmp and /usr/tmp is a throwback to older versions of UNIX (v6 and prior); I believe "user" programs (the same ones that went into /usr/bin, which was originally publicly writable!) used /usr/tmp. Nowadays /tmp is normally used by all programs (or it should be, anyway). Dave Sherman Toronto -- {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utcsrgv!dave