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. Another possible use is for files you explicitly want to make transient, like say /var/rwho (not that anyone uses rwhod any more) or /usr/pkgsrc/packages or /var/crash or a subtree you point coredumps into. Or whatever. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
