> > It might still be useful if R could sometimes detect when automated > > cleanup happened and warn the user. Perhaps a simple way could be to > > always create an empty file inside session directory, like > > ".tmp_cleaner_trap". R would never touch this file, but check its > > existence time-to-time. If it gets deleted, R would issue a warning and > > ask the user to check tmp cleaner configuration. The idea is that this > > file will be the oldest one in the session directory, so would get > > cleaned up first.
It may kill two birds with one stone if we put the PID into such a file. Then it could be used to automate the cleanup of /tmp/RtmpXXXX directories left around from crashed R sessions (since we're about to tell Systemd not to touch them). I'm not sure what is meant by "R would ... check its existence time-to-time". It doesn't sound to me like an important enough task to go into the main event loop of the interpreter. Maybe a warning/error in 'tempdir()' to tell us that either the directory has been deleted or that the PID file no longer exists. Thank you, Frederick ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
