On Sat, 11.04.15 16:21, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbys...@in.waw.pl) wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 02:26:57PM +0200, Kai Krakow wrote: > > dean <deanshann...@gmail.com> schrieb: > > > > > Ok thanks for your prompt reply. It is my understanding the the > > > house-keeping-plugin "cleans" /tmp so does it need access? > That sounds wrong. First, systemd is already cleaning /tmp, so nothing > good is going to come out of cleaning it twice. Second, doing cleanup > as unprivileged user does not really work. If the user is not running, > the cleanup is not going to happen, so on a multi-user system, when the > user logs out, files would stay around infinetely. So cleanup from > the graphical session is ineffective. More importantly, an unprivileged > user cannot access files without bumping their access time stamp. So > trying to do the cleanup as an unprivileged user actually interferes > with systemd-tmpfiles (see df99a9ef5bb7a89b92 and > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183684). Yes, I figully agree... GNOME shouldn't bother with this, it's actively harmful to do this. I file a bug now: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747737 Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
