On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:31:28 -0700
Bart Smaalders <bart.smaalders at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Brian Cameron wrote:
> > Some programs which use TMPDIR may depend on the fact that /var/tmp
> > is persistent across reboots.

> Then those programs are broken since the user can affect TMPDIR by
> setting it as an environment variable.

That might be, but why should we give up the difference betwee
persistent / non persistent. why not keep both?

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