From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Jan 5 21: 7:32 2001 From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 21:07:30 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6342F37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 21:07:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from holly.calldei.com ([208.191.149.190]) by mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0G6Q006J861F5E@mta5.rcsntx.swbell.net> for doc@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 23:03:16 -0600 (CST) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0654MT16679; Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:04:22 -0600 (CST envelope-from chris) Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 23:04:00 -0600 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: Request for review: Proposed patch to hier.7 In-reply-to: To: Rich Morin Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20010105230400.C15054@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: <20010105184637.A15054@holly.calldei.com> <20010105202133.B15054@holly.calldei.com> Sender: chris@holly.calldei.com Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, January 05, 2001, Rich Morin wrote to me (but I don't think he'd mind this being posted to -doc): > /mnt/ empty directory commonly used by system administrators as a tem- > --- > /mnt/ empty directory; commonly used by system administrators as a tem- This seems fine either way. It is indeed an empty directory commonly used by system administrators for mounting temporary file systems. > /tmp/ temporary files, usually a mfs(8) memory-based filesystem (the > --- > /tmp/ temporary files, usually an mfs(8) memory-based filesystem (the > > ??? - Is mfs the default? I don't recall refusing it, but I don't think I > have it... That's a good question. The point of /tmp vs. /var/tmp is that /var/tmp is typically meant as something that is stored across reboots, where /tmp shouldn't have that assumption made. > gcc/ ??? > ??? There's no files in there, so your guess is as good as mine. That's what I was asking in the first post. -- +-------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | Chris Costello | If I had it all to do over again, | | chris@calldei.com | I'd spell creat with an "e". - Kernighan | +-------------------+-------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message