Temporary File

Temporary File

Temporary files may be created by computer programs for a variety of purposes; principally when a program cannot allocate enough memory for its tasks, when the program is working on data bigger than the architecture's address space, or as a primitive form of inter-process communication.

Read more about Temporary File:  Auxiliary Memory, Inter-process Communication, Creation, Issues

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