Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: /tmp vs. /usr/tmp (System V) Message-ID: <5323@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 15-Oct-84 21:06:30 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.5323 Posted: Mon Oct 15 21:06:30 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 17-Oct-84 19:35:28 EDT References: <5279@brl-tgr.ARPA>, <528@wjh12.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 5 TMPDIR is documented but many utilities and user applications do not use the new tempnam() function but rather the old mktemp(). With Release 2 of UNIX System V, the C compiler has been changed to use /usr/tmp by default. The main utility that concerns me is "sort", which can really eat up temp space.