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On Monday 29 January 2007 08:38:08 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> If memory serves, the FHS defines /tmp as a temporary |
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> place to store files, and the continued existence of the file after a |
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> process has finished is not guaranteed. |
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Gentoo does not and never did follow FHS. Really /var/tmp is just a default |
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value. |
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> In other words, if there are no |
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> existing locks on a file, it's up for summary deletion. |
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Plenty of things break if you just delete arbitrary files in /tmp while |
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programs using it are running. I don't know what kind of locks you expect are |
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being used all over /tmp.. |
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Bo Andresen |