Tim: >> Not quite... It will delete not recently looked at files, whether you >> actually used them or not. It's an important distinction, here's why: Adalbert Prokop: > I did not want to exaggerate the distinction between > creation/modification/access time - simplifications are helpful in > explanations. ;) I prefer not to oversimplify things to the point that they're misleading or incorrect. If you think that files aren't being "used" when that isn't really the deletion criteria, you're going to get confused trying to work out why they're not being deleted. > But yes, there is clearly a difference. Just listing the contents of a > directory will not change the file access time, but reading the files > surely will. That depends on what you use to list them. In the command line, you're just going to read the directory. In a graphical manager, it's probably going to look into the files, to determine what type they are, while listing them, not just when you try to open one of them. As far as deleting /tmp files on shutdown or startup, as a solution, I suggest doing so on shutdown. That way they only get deleted on good shutdowns. On a crash, temp files are still there when you reboot, so you can check things out as part of your diagnosis. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
