On Sun, 7 Aug 2011, David Holland wrote: > On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: > > And what is auto-erasing files good for in the first place? I don't get > > the point, for me it's calling for trouble. > > Traditionally, it's so /tmp doesn't grow without bound, which once > upon a time was a problem with small root partitions or ramdisks.
What processes leave data in /tmp? perhaps they should be fixed instead, to clean up after themselves.. I actively use /tmp as a work area so I notice when it builds up, but I guess using things like magic symlinks to provide a per-user tmp storage (or however that works :) can hide the real size of /tmp in multi-user systems. The biggest offender I see is that build.sh sometimes leaves /tmp/config.* directories around which I clean out, but not sure if thats only when it is interrupted or fails.. iain