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). - Jukka.
