Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mimsy!umd5!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn 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. Lines: 17 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.