Richard Elling <richard.ell...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > BTW: Solaris has tmpfs since late 1987.
> >
> > It is a de-facto standard since then as it e.g. helps to reduce
> > compile times.
>
> Yep, and before that, there was just an rc script to rm everything in /
> tmp.
IIRC, SunOS-3.x did call (cd /tmp; rm -rf *)
Most Linux distros do AFAIR either not remove the content in /tmp or just call
(cd /tmp; rm *) which may leave all files or all files in sub-directories.
If people depend on this behavior, they make a mistake ;-)
Jörg
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