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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Quoting Jaco Carlson <jaco@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Can you safely delete all files in /tmp?
>
> Many will be in use.  It is not a good idea to delete them.  It is safe to
> delete those from before the last reboot.  Reboot, not resume from
> suspend/hibernate.


A files which is in use will not be re-allocated until after
the process which is using it does a close() on the file handle.

Unless a program is written very stupidly (close a tmp file,
and then attempts to re-open it), removing files in /tmp
should be entirely safe.



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