Re: Are Pathnames in /tmp/systemd-private-foo predictable?

[Marc Haber <mh+systemd-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 09:59:24AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> It's the boot ID, i.e. /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id. We include it
> in the name so that we can distinguish such dirs of the current boot
> from those of earlier boots (which can be retained because of abnormal
> shutdown or so). In the latter case we can safely remove them to avoid
> collecting left-over directories.

Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate that.

Greetings
Marc

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