> >>>>> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:34:47 -0800,
>       Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org> said:
> 
> >> is it how mac's /private/tmp is used?
> >> if you follow their naming, it's better to follow their semantics as  
> >> well.
> 
> > OS X's /private/tmp is kind of a hold-over from NeXTSTEP -- IIRC, / 
> > private on NeXTSTEP was intended to be "private to this  
> > machine" (think of shared /). 
> 
> So, MacOS X is using somewhat legacy convention from NeXTSTEP.
> It seems the toplevel directory in NeXTSTEP is what modern UNIX
> variants call /var.

i've heard that their /private contains /etc as well.

anyway, it's a bad idea to use the same name for the different meaning.

YAMAMOTO Takashi