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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: /usr/tmp
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Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 02:57:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  3 02:57:39 1987
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> Is there any reason why all the utilities that use it couldn't be recoded
> to use /tmp instead, and /usr/tmp be banished?

Yes.  If by "utilities" you mean the programs supplied as part of
UNIX by the vendor, changing the utilities isn't good enough.  There
will be lots of third-party and customer-written applications out
there that use "/usr/tmp", and they'd all have to change too.

When I was at CCI we were porting our Office Power application to a
Zilog S8000, and one of the bits of Zilog B****n D*****e was that it
didn't have a "/usr/tmp".  Our applications put things in "/usr/tmp"
because it was more likely to have lots of room than "/tmp".  Our
solution was simple:

	% su
	Password:
	# mkdir /usr/tmp
	# chmod a+rwx /usr/tmp
	Guy Harris
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