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