A bit of trivia: what does usr stand for?

Brad Knowles brad.knowles at skynet.be
Sun Dec 21 23:06:05 PST 2003


At 11:08 PM +0000 2003/12/20, Colin Percival wrote:

>    The same could be said about /tmp.  I suspect it has less to do with
>  abbreviation, and more to do with someone having a broken "e" key on their
>  keyboard. ;)

	That would explain only part of "creat()".

	I guess it was only lazy when it was late?  ;-)

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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