Some reflections on directories for temporary data in Grass

[David Houlder]

> From grass-lists-owner at moon.cecer.army.mil Tue Feb 21 06:14 EST 1995
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> Subject: Some reflections on directories for temporary data in Grass
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Hi all...
> 	
> 	What is the reason for a .tmp directory in the databases directory
> 	tree, is there something I've neglected?

My guess is that /tmp is not always very big, or may be used as swap
space, or may be implemented as a memory-resident filesystem. /var/tmp
is often bigger, but the best bet is probably to make your own tmp dir,
as grass does.


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