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Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug)
From: Peter van Dijk (petervdvuurwerk.nl)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 17:43:28 CDT

On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:40:41AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:38:37PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote:
> :[snip]
> :>
> :> Absence of /tmp is a pretty major oversight for any machine. Putting it
> :> on the root partition is doubly so. If there's no sepsrate partition it
> :> should at least be an alias to /var/tmp or something of the sort.
> :
> :To /usr/tmp, please, then.
> :
> :/var/tmp is designed to be not cleaned out on reboots.
> :
> :Greetz, Peter.
>
> It should be /var/tmp. It's bad enough that some bozo created two
> standard locations for temporary files (/tmp and /var/tmp), we don't
> want to add a third.

I agree wholeheartedly with you. I was, therefore, not giving an opinion,
just interpreting man hier :)

Greetz, Peter. 

-- 
petervdvuurwerk.nl - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love]

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