Richard Lewis <[email protected]> writes: > Luca Boccassi <[email protected]> writes:
>> what would break where, and how to fix it? > Another one for you to investigate: I believe apt source and 'apt-get > source' download and extract things into /tmp, as in the mmdebootstap > example mentioned by someone else, this will create "old" files that > could immediately be flagged for deletion causing surprises. > (People restoring from backups might also find this an issue) systemd-tmpfiles respects atime and ctime by default, not just mtime, so I think this would only be a problem on file systems that didn't support those attributes. atime is often turned off, but I believe support for ctime is fairly universal among the likely file systems for /var/tmp, and I believe tmpfs supports all three. (I'm not 100% sure, though, so please correct me if I'm wrong.) -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
