[1599] in Athena Bugs
Re: We've got to fix clean_tmp_areas.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu Jan 5 04:23:39 1989
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 89 04:22:51 EST
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, athena-ws@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Bill Cattey's message of Wed, 4 Jan 89 23:32:13 EST,
I would disagree with your reasoning, and suggest instead that such
files as attachtab have no business being in any system directory
called `tmp'.
The situation isn't all that pathological. Someone using Xdm (as
things are set up now) will lose if their machine goes unused over a
long weekend; people who stay logged in but completely idle for three
days can have this problem as well.
Files such as attachtab should be considered in no way temporary; it
should be as temporary as /etc/mtab (which lists the currently mounted
file systems, as opposed to `attached' file systems).
I don't think this problem has anything to do with the question of
whether user-owned files in such `temporary' areas should go away on a
time-limit basis or when the user logs out.
-- Ken
