/tmp and /usr/tmp

Phil Ngai phil at amd70.UUCP
Sun Mar 18 08:53:43 AEST 1984


At the risk of exposing my profound ignorance, why are there both
/tmp and /usr/tmp? When would I use one or the other when I write
a program? Is the distinction between an always mounted and not
always mounted filesystem?

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