On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> >
> > Yes, /tmp should be for temporary stuff. And this "stuff" is
> > sockets, in this case, in a hidden directory. In 7.1 the use of
> > /tmp for these sockets has been discontinued. Now they use
> > /root/tmp which most people leave alone.
> >
> Has there ever been a satisfactory explanation of WHY they
> put PERMANENT stuff in a temporary directory? It seems
> rather loco to me to put ANYTHING you want to keep in a
> TEMP directory... :-)
Actually they are temporary sockets (files), but they are more persistent
than other temporary files so /var/tmp would have been a better
location. /root/tmp seems quite illogical.
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