> On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 04:23:04AM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > 
> >  > Why don't you just mount /var/tmp as MFS?
> > 
> > /var/tmp is supposed to persist across reboots.
> 
> Next question is why does for instance gcc place temporary files at
> /var/tmp?
> These are files I'd typically definitely want to remove if I reboot.
> 

Because that's what P_tmpdir is defined to in stdio.h

R.