[PLUG] /tmp
Jeme A Brelin
jeme at brelin.net
Fri Aug 8 22:12:01 UTC 2003
On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Sean Whitney wrote:
> Please be aware that this is changing across different distributions.
>
> RedHat now doesn't remove everything on reboot. It does have some sort
> of cronjob that cleans some stuff up. However after a reboot the files
> are still there.
That seems frightening. Seems that this could develop some kind of
"expected behavior" and create a bunch of, say, Red Hat specific packages
written by developers that don't know any better.
Of course, I'd say the RIGHT thing to do is use tmpfs or somesuch
memory-based filesystem for /tmp. That way you don't need cron jobs or
boot scripts and it's quick quick quick.
J.
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