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> I confess I've never thought much about why /tmp exists, but today I was |
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> inconvenienced when an end-user utility (uudeview) ran out of space on /tmp |
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> while doing an ordinary end-user task processing very large end-user files. |
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> Why is an end-user program using a "system" directory like /tmp in the first |
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> place? |
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> I suspect that the need for /tmp is now gone, but I'm prepared to be wrong |
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> :) |
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Because /home may be on a NFS mount, with slow access and a disk usage quota. |
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:) |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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kde, council |
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