>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...
Neither have I; and when I went looking for files their it was
invariable for files I copied their myself.
I don't see users changing from:
cd /tmp
wget something
to
cd $TMPDIR
wget something
Casper
