[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#385050: initscripts: TMPTIME cleanup doesn't work in /tmp

Petter Reinholdtsen pere at hungry.com
Thu Oct 12 13:42:57 UTC 2006


[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]
> Probably removing the atime option should fix the issue for a gui
> user/machine.
> 
> What do you say ??

As far as I know, we have three timestamp options, atime, mtime and
ctime.  Using ctime and mtime would break long-running programs
expecting the files they created during starting to linger around as
long as they are read.  Using atime is as far as I know, the only
option that work.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen




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