Claus Assmann wrote in
 <[email protected]>:
 |Sorry if this has been mentioned before, I couldn't find
 |it in the archives:
 |
 |man hier on OpenBSD:
 |  /var/
 |                tmp -> ../tmp
 |                           A symbolic link to the system /tmp directory. To
 |                           protect other users of /var from overfill
 |                           conditions, this is no longer a space you \
 |                           can trust
 |                           to retain storage over a reboot.  Periodically
 |                           cleaned by daily(8).

And to remark for the interested that at a time when i was
actively tracking source commits they removed usage of $TMPDIR to
a vast extend, fixating servers etc (iirc; ie: base system).

(Actually i have to deal with the above a bit because i use
distinct mount points for /tmp/ (memory FS), /var/tmp/ and several
other entries in /var/ which unfortunately have
"auto-growing/changing" data to some sometimes "bitter extent",
but which should not affect other things of the system, or that
itself.  Granted configuring this is anything else but automatic;
and with program updates things can/could also change under the
hood, too.  It is impossible.)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)

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