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Jerry Feldman wrote in a message to Mike Bilow: > First of all, /tmp is rarely used. JF> That is true, but there are still programs that use it. I JF> have not checked the /tmp usage on Linux, but on commercial JF> Unix systems some legacy applications were hard coded to JF> /tmp. One is the old /bin/mail program. Also, any program JF> needing temporary storage in single user mode. My point, in context, was that moving /tmp to a ramdisk is a waste of RAM. -- Mike - Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" on the first line of the message body to discuss-request at blu.org (Subject line is ignored).
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