[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#385050: initscripts: TMPTIME cleanup doesn't work in /tmp

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]
> Will we implement a different mechanism to do clean-ups for /tmp ?

Thank you for the followup information.  This bug had be truly
confused for a while.

As you have noticed, the atime is updated when a file is read.  The
reason this time stamp is used is the assumtion that files in use are
files being read, and files in use should not be cleaned out of /tmp/.
I believ this assumtion is sane, and do not plan to change the cleanup
algorithm.

Friendly,
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Petter Reinholdtsen