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In Unix and Linux, the global temporary directories are /tmp and /var/tmp. Web browsers periodically write data to the tmp directory during page views and downloads. Typically, /var/tmp is for persistent files (as it may be preserved over reboots), and /tmp is for more temporary files. See Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.
TMPDIR is the canonical environment variable in Unix and POSIX [1] that should be used to specify a temporary directory for scratch space.Most Unix programs will honor this setting and use its value to denote the scratch area for temporary files instead of the common default of /tmp [2] [3] or /var/tmp.
Modern Linux distributions include a /run directory as a temporary filesystem , which stores volatile runtime data, following the FHS version 3.0. According to the FHS version 2.3, such data were stored in /var/run , but this was a problem in some cases because this directory is not always available at early boot.
A directory whose "sticky bit" is set becomes a directory in which the deletion of files is restricted. A file in a sticky directory may only be removed or renamed by a user if the user has write permission for the directory and the user is the owner of the file, the owner of the directory, or the super-user.
Some Linux distributions (e.g. Debian) do not have a tmpfs mounted on /tmp by default; in this case, files under /tmp will be stored in the same file system as /. And on almost all Linux distributions, a tmpfs is mounted on /run/ or /var/run/ to store temporary run-time files such as PID files and Unix domain sockets.
.tmp, a temporary folder in Unix or Linux systems; Trusted Platform Module; Language. Time–manner–place, in linguistic typology; Places.
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The mail delivery agent creates a new file with a unique filename in the tmp directory. [5] [6] [3] At the time of its invention guaranteeing unique filenames efficiently was difficult. The original qmail [1] algorithm for unique names was: read the current Unix time; read the current process identifier (PID) read the current hostname