• takeheart@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    What’s the difference between run time program data and temporary files? Is /tmp just for system level processes but not for user space?

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      1 month ago

      You can shove anything in /tmp, it is (by default) read/writeable by all users/groups. Plenty of user apps create files/folders in tmp