>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 02:36:44 -0600
>From: Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley14.res.iastate.edu>
>
>i was just curious what the purpose or significance of these directories
>are.  is there some sort of convention as to what kind of stuff goes in
>each?  im just curious because it seems that gcc puts its tmp files in
>/var/tmp now.  im not sure, but i could have swown that they were put in
>/tmp before.  and that is the one that i have as my mfs tmp dir.. :\

See hier(7).  I think the key point is that gcc's tmp files may get
large, so we use /var/tmp instead of /tmp.
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