/tmp and /usr/tmp - (nf)
paul at uiucuxc.UUCP
paul at uiucuxc.UUCP
Wed Mar 21 18:32:32 AEST 1984
#R:amd70:-443200:uiucuxc:29300010:000:561
uiucuxc!paul Mar 20 23:20:00 1984
In regard to the /tmp /usr/tmp split:
Back in the days of V6 on a PDP 11/50, /usr/tmp held the temp files
for the C/A/T 8 phototypesetter. I think this was done for space
reasons. Troff created rather large output files that would overflow
/tmp (which was part of the root filesystem). Filling up the root was
an unkind thing to do to V6 - but I loved V6 anyway.
Paul Pomes
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