> I confess I've never thought much about why /tmp exists, but today I was > inconvenienced when an end-user utility (uudeview) ran out of space on /tmp > while doing an ordinary end-user task processing very large end-user files. > > Why is an end-user program using a "system" directory like /tmp in the first > place? > > I suspect that the need for /tmp is now gone, but I'm prepared to be wrong > :)
Because /home may be on a NFS mount, with slow access and a disk usage quota. :) -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, council
