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
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
As I recall, tmp was often a small, fast disk drive, compared to the
slow lumbering washing machines that most data resided on. Several
sites I recall had a couple of head per track drives; one would be for
the swap partitions and the other was for temporary stuff that was
being worked on. After
On 16/12/2014 02:17, walt wrote:
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
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