-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2011-11-23 at 10:28 +0100, Graham Anderson wrote:
On Monday 21 Nov 2011 23:41:02 Carlos E. R. wrote:
The system is not the exclusive owner of temporary space. People can use it for temporary purposes of their own. The system is free to erase the temporary files it creates, but not the temporary files created by others - unless the admin explicitly says otherwise.
The problem is that the system is unable to keep track of its own temporary files, so it erases all. That must be the decision of the admin, not of the system, ie, the packagers.
No. *People* can, and should, put their own temporary data elsewhere.
Where is that mandated?
As you correctly observe the system cannot keep track of all system, service & daemon generated temporary files, so it *must* periodically remove _all_ of
No. Only if the admin says so, and in the manner he says so. And openSUSE defaults to respect this, no temporary files are erased. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk7NsC0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V3yACgkzxGpp3xcjgpQRpPWDK5XY3V JMQAnieqqY2m3L65oUWYCDUPwWOqMY4z =ESjl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org