Am 07.08.11 18:59, schrieb Emmanuel Dreyfus: > Marc Balmer <mbal...@netbsd.org> wrote: > >> But that is uber-stupid ;) Something tries to access a file, which is >> perfectly there, and instead of returning the data, we toss the data >> away and return ENOENT... ??? > > If I understood correctly the idea, you do this if your temporary file > has expired its TTL. The idea is to have temporary file that vanish on > their own, right?
If at all, I think it only makes sense if a file vanishes on its own, thus freeing space. If nothing ever accesses it, it will forever use up space. But then, I don't think that filesystems should become "to intelligent" and tinker with their content on themselves (with maybe the exception of some filesystems that are designed for this, devfs, ptyfs etc. /tmp is none of these and should best be left alone, imo)
