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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /usr/tmp
Message-ID: <6064@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 17:45:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6064
Posted: Sun Jul  5 17:45:32 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 22:48:49 EDT
References: <431@murphy.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <431@murphy.UUCP> dave@murphy.UUCP (The Giant Hogweed) writes:
>Does anyone still need /usr/tmp?

YES!!!

>Things are different now.  Around here, practically every machine has
>a /tmp partition with a fair amount of space.

Not around here!  Our /tmps typically run around 15Mb, which sounds like
a lot until you try sorting a few large files or creating several frame
buffer images.

The idea is, /tmp should be used ONLY by "system" utilities, and /usr/tmp
should be used by "user" applications, particularly those that might need
a lot of space; it is not wise to allow user applications to break the
operation of system utilities.  That is why the default for tempnam() in
the absence of a TMPDIR environment variable is usually set to /usr/tmp.