From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 27 23:53:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06016 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:53:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xcf.berkeley.edu (scam.XCF.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA06001 for ; Mon, 27 Apr 1998 23:53:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nordwick@xcf.berkeley.edu) Received: (qmail 20471 invoked by uid 27268); 28 Apr 1998 06:54:29 -0000 Date: 28 Apr 1998 06:54:29 -0000 Message-ID: <19980428065429.20470.qmail@xcf.berkeley.edu> From: Jason Nordwick MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: P_tmpdir X-Mailer: VM 6.32 under Emacs 19.34.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have asked this before, and maybe it is just a lame questions, but why is L_tmpdir "/var/tmp" ? Why not "/tmp" ? And what is the difference between the two ? I use all the tmpdir family of calls and having my temporary file is "/var/tmp" kinda sucks if /tmp is mfs (also, they tend not to be cleared on system startup). thanks jay To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message