Re: Regarding /tmp
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
> Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in
> /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If
> you want that, how about "/gets-deleted-at-reboot". DUH. /tmp on Linux
> is not some stupid communist shit-licking in-memory filesystem like it is
> on Solaris. And if I find the fuckbag who wrote the script that delted my
> work, I'm going to give him a piece of my mind.
You do not know the difference between /tmp then and /var/tmp it is a very
well recognised way of doing things for a long time now.
/tmp means do not persist over a reboot
/var/tmp means do persist over a reboot
This has been the case for a very long time now, time for you to read the
fhs.
Adam
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