In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0207050026470.27469-100000@Tempo.Update.UU.SE>
bqt@update.uu.se wrote:

> 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.

It's easy to change gcc to use /tmp for TMPDIR with a quick
hack (which we had in the previous our in-tree egcs),
but I believe Jason has a more reasonable idea that
would also be acceptable by official gcc maintainers.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp