Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Is /dev/shm needed? | Date | 16 Dec 2001 18:26:57 -0800 |
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Followup to: <E16Fl8j-0000nA-00@phalynx> By author: Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On December 16, 2001 15:47, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: > > I may be wrong about /tmp as well, but I have come to think that it is data > > that ought be discarded after logout, and have sometimes considered writing > > a script for it in the login/logout scripts. > > System daemons can legally use /tmp, and they may not apprechiate having > their files removed from underneath them everytime someone telnets in. ;) >
Not to mention when you kill a secondary session. It's bogus. However, discarding /tmp on *REBOOT* is legitimate.
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