John Plocher wrote:
> 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...

What about
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/shell-discuss/2007-April/000245.html
and Shawn's comments ?

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Roland

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