From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d67bb37e1cf14345 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!24.30.200.11!news-east.rr.com!news-feed-01.rdc-kc.rr.com!news.rr.com!cyclone2.kc.rr.com!news2.kc.rr.com!tornado.socal.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is there a Unix /tmp directory. How dissimilar are they. References: <1154345199.976999.94550@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> From: Keith Thompson Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mr2JuYzR7VDJUL62JNHiOO8Uit0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:07:11 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.75.13.45 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: tornado.socal.rr.com 1154394431 66.75.13.45 (Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:07:11 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:07:11 PDT Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6043 Date: 2006-08-01T01:07:11+00:00 List-Id: "Chris L" writes: > What are the differences between Unix's /tmp directory and the > closest thing on a Vax? How much memory is involved? What can I use the > corresponding Vax mechanism for? How often is the Vax /tmp directory > used? Who uses it in general? Does the contents of this repository get > deleted after a certain time limit has been reached? Are there any > caveats that I should know about? If the VAX is running Unix, it will have a /tmp directory just like any other Unix system. If it's running VMS / OpenVMS, then you should say so. Preferably, you should say so in comp.os.vms. Incidentally, several of your questions (size, how often it's used, whether it's purged) are going to vary from one individual system to another, depending on the whim of the administrator, on either Unix or VMS. -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.