Re: /tmp Cleanup

For internal stuff, I have no qualms about deleting anything left in /tmp.
When I've had complaints I explain that tmp means Temporary, if you want to
keep it, find a proper home for it.

I never like to assume that a venor really knows what they're doing.


Gord




On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 11:51 AM John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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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