In article <200003062352.IAA02969@edge.sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>,
	Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp> writes:
> Hmmm. I think "/var/tmp" was used since temporary files created by
> sort(1) in updatedb.csh grew large, and it is safer that creating larger
> temporary files in "/var/tmp" rather than "/tmp".

Why is this safer? These days most people have "/tmp" on a MFS on top
of their swap partition which is much larger than the root partition
with "/var" on it.

	Kind regards

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