Hi, regarding the intended behaviour, that is if the canary file is the youngest file after unpacking, I don’t have any objections at all. My point was simply that the unpacking modification might break some code.
Cheers, Markus From: roderich.sch...@gmail.com [mailto:roderich.sch...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Roderich Schupp Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 2:15 PM To: Markus Jansen Cc: Shawn Laffan; par@perl.org Subject: Re: PAR + tmpwatch = mess On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Markus Jansen <markus.jan...@ericsson.com<mailto:markus.jan...@ericsson.com>> wrote: I would not recommend the canary mode as a default, unless we have found that it is reasonable to do so. Why not? If a user is still invoking the packed executable once in a while, the canary avoids the situation that he has an incomplete cache area. If they don't invoke the packed executable anymore, the cache area will be cleaned up eventually by tmpwatch or whatever, no harm done. Sorry to pick on this: pp has too many options already. Cheers, Roderich