Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Stefan Monnier
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 00:00

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curt@kcwc.com (Curt Welch) writes:
> what /var was - it came many many years later.  I've
> always thought it meant variable i.e. the stuff that would
> change from one system to the next on a network of
> systems with shared filesystems.

I believe the "veriable" means that it holds the part of the file-system that
has variable (in the sense of varying with time) data. /usr and /etc could be
(with some care) read-only and only /var really needs to be read-write. Of
course this is invalidated by /etc/utmp and /etc/mtab, but these should really
be /var/run/utmp and /var/run/mtab so it doesn't count.

        Stefan

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier+/news/gnu/misc/discuss@tequila.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/17
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