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Re: Moving /tmp to tmpfs is fine



On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 12:15 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> What's the folder structure in /tmp then? /tmp/<something>/$USER?

It's the Wild West over there. You'll often see something
like /tmp/$procname/$pid/blah or /tmp/$procname/$user/blah, or
just /tmp/$some_hash_of_who_knows_what/blah. 

FHS is uncharacteristically laconic:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#TMPTEMPORARYFILES

Weldon




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