Laurenz Albe <albe@culturallnospam.com> wrote:
>> requirement? Do programs just assume it's there and properly mounted?
>
> The POSIX standard requires that there is a /tmp directory.
> You may rely on the existence of that directory.

In multi-user level, that is. Single user there MAY not be a /tmp
present cq mounted yet.
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