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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> But lot many people use Debian on their desktops/laptops and I guess they 
> would be using gui tools to navigate through the filesystem. We should 
> consider those systems/users too.

The GUI tools that:
	1. Pass themselves off as file managers
	2. Modify atime of every file that was just "listed"

are hopelessly broken.  They have to be fixed not to change atime of the
files, (they can, arguably, leave the directory atime's alone, as it *was*
accessed).

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  Henrique Holschuh