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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: /tmp vs. /usr/tmp
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Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 23:48:35 EDT
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Something under consideration for a future BSD release is a truly
temporary file system---equivalent to swap-backed memory in that
things stored here may get pushed to disk if necessary, but will
not survive reboots.  Editors, however, want to create temporary
files that *do* survive reboots, so as to recover editing sessions
after system crashes.  One proposal is to make /tmp truly temporary,
and /usr/tmp `real disk files'.
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