Re: autoclean mode for tmpfs

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 07:09:14AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
>  > Sounds like a job for the userland and cron(8).
> 
> uh no.
> 
> See: "since cleaning /tmp on a live system is very dangerous"

So care to elaborate what is dangerous about it?

I do clean /tmp daily, but it needs to be done selectively.

- Jukka.