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[โ€“] takeheart@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Lemongrab@lemmy.one 2 points 4 days 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