chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (07/04/87)
Something under consideration for a future BSD release is a truly temporary file system---equivalent to swap-backed memory in that things stored here may get pushed to disk if necessary, but will not survive reboots. Editors, however, want to create temporary files that *do* survive reboots, so as to recover editing sessions after system crashes. One proposal is to make /tmp truly temporary, and /usr/tmp `real disk files'. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: seismo!mimsy!chris