Um, that they may be but... I was under the impression (mistaken?) that /tmp is a directory defined under the POSIX standard and is in fact supposed to be flushed in those cases, and that /var/tmp is to be used for programs desiring persistant storage across shutdowns (scheduled and unscheduled).
Perhaps it only says that a program is not allowed to rely on /tmp being persistent. I don't have a copy at hand :-/ -Jon On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Jon Dama wrote: > > yes, that's quite generous. > > > > why isn't /tmp just an mfs mount though? > > While I like that suggestion personally, some people get perturbed about files > in /tmp going away if the power fails or you reboot. > > -- > -Chuck > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
