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Re: /tmp Cleanup

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 11:42 AM Jack Woehr
<jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In Unix, the rule is "everything in /tmp is deleted at reboot".

I know IBM i doesn't do that, but I believe the rule is "nothing in /tmp is
EXPECTED to survive re-IPL."

Putting stuff that is meant to be persistent in a directory called
/tmp certainly doesn't seem like a smart thing to do. If some software
is doing that, then I would have to challenge its creator
Inigo-Montoya-style: I do not think "tmp" means what you think it
means.

John Y.

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