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

[Samuel Thibault]

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh, le Thu 12 Oct 2006 14:18:08 -0300, a écrit :
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> > But then how do you think features like "Thumbnails" and "Icon Preview of the 
> > file" can be accomplished _without_ accessing the file ?
> 
> What part of modifying atime has anything to do with accessing the file?
> Reset it back, if you are going to do stuff like that.

That's racy, however. Think about another program really accessing the
file between the thumbnailer reading the file and setting atime back.

Also, in the meanwhile, relatime has been enable as default mount option
for linux fs. This means that keeping reading a file will not be enough
for making it safe in /tmp, unless the admin has set the norelatime
option.

Samuel