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From: dave@murphy.UUCP (The Giant Hogweed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: /usr/tmp
Message-ID: <431@murphy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jul-87 18:05:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: murphy.431
Posted: Thu Jul  2 18:05:01 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jul-87 08:39:32 EDT
Organization: Gould CSD, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Keywords: temp useless

Does anyone still need /usr/tmp?  This is one of those things that date
back to the days when you had two 5M drives; one was root and the other
was /usr, and neither one had a lot of space, so they both had temp
directories, and some utilities used /tmp and some used /usr/tmp.

Things are different now.  Around here, practically every machine has
a /tmp partition with a fair amount of space.  Unfortunately, a lot of
people have neglected /usr/tmp, especially those that have moved /usr/spool
and /usr/man/cat* off to other places; a lot of these machines have almost
no free space on /tmp.  This becomes a problem when you try to do a sort,
because the sort utility creates its work files on /usr/tmp.

On everything that I take care of, I've made /usr/tmp a symlink to
/tmp (Sun and Gould machines, obviously running derivatives of BSD 4.2
and 4.3).  Several others have done the same.

So, my question is: Does anyone still need /usr/tmp?  Is there any reason
why all the utilities that use it couldn't be recoded to use /tmp instead,
and /usr/tmp be banished?

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