On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 09:25:59AM +0300, Jukka Ruohonen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 03:10:29AM +0000, David Holland wrote: > > So I just had an idea: since cleaning /tmp on a live system is very > > dangerous unless done so (and even then somewhat dangerous), plus > > there are other possible uses for automatically disappearing files: > > > > How hard would it be to add a mount option for tmpfs to automatically > > drop files after a given timeout? It seems to me that it shouldn't be > > very difficult, but I haven't looked at the tmpfs innards in a while. > > > > Anyone think this is worthwhile? > > Sounds like a job for the userland and cron(8).
uh no. See: "since cleaning /tmp on a live system is very dangerous" -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
