On 19 Aug 2015, at 1:36pm, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf at dessus.com> wrote:

> Meaning that on a persistent temp storage the files will stay forever (or 
> until a manually deleted).  Then again, on systems such as windows where temp 
> files are never deleted this is to be expected.

Hmm.  On every Unix box I've seen /tmp gets cleaned up either on shutdown or on 
startup.  (With the possible exception of 'safestart' or 'safeboot' where 
implemented.)

Are you telling me that Windows doesn't do either ?  No wonder the hard disks 
fill up.

Simon.

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