[16378] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.2.10: emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Oct 1 01:18:48 1998
To: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, pnkfelix@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Sep 1998 22:23:55 EDT."
<199810010223.WAA23215@scrubbing-bubbles.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 01:18:42 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I would like to figure out why emacs (presumably it's emacs) is
> leaving the file around. Should't /var/tmp be getting cleared at
> boot time anyway?
No, the whole point of /var/tmp being separate from /tmp is that
/var/tmp sticks around after a reboot. Files are removed from
/var/tmp by a cron job operating on the basis of last access time and
last modify time. (We could, of course, make an exception for this
particular file; that was the bludgeon I referred to.)
The EACCESS error you mentioned in your last message is presumably
because the file belongs to another user.
I have no idea why it would be getting left around, other than an
unfortunate reboot.
