Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:30:47
Message-Id: 200701300825.28720.bo.andresen@zlin.dk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Symlinking /usr/portage/distfiles by Alan McKinnon
1 On Monday 29 January 2007 08:38:08 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > If memory serves, the FHS defines /tmp as a temporary
3 > place to store files, and the continued existence of the file after a
4 > process has finished is not guaranteed.
5
6 Gentoo does not and never did follow FHS. Really /var/tmp is just a default
7 value.
8
9 > In other words, if there are no
10 > existing locks on a file, it's up for summary deletion.
11
12 Plenty of things break if you just delete arbitrary files in /tmp while
13 programs using it are running. I don't know what kind of locks you expect are
14 being used all over /tmp..
15
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17 Bo Andresen