Roland Mainz wrote: > For users it appears to be friendlier (compared to have _all_ the files > in one flat directory where you have to search for your files via $ ls > -l | fgrep "myusername" # or worse).
But /why/ would I ever be searching for files there? I have /never/ had a reason to do a "ls -l $TMPDIR" in all my 20 years of using Unix, USG, Linux and Solaris. I could see this proposal as being interesting if this were an operation that was frequently performed, but looking under the covers as the various programs do their thing isn't something that users usually do... I can't do anything with those files, there is no guarantee that they won't be deleted in the near future, their content us unknown and unknowable, etc. -John
