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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: Is /dev/shm needed?
Date: 16 Dec 2001 18:26:57 -0800
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Followup to:  <E16Fl8j-0000nA-00@phalynx>
By author:    Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On December 16, 2001 15:47, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
> > I may be wrong about /tmp as well, but I have come to think that it is data
> > that ought be discarded after logout, and have sometimes considered writing
> > a script for it in the login/logout scripts.
> 
> System daemons can legally use /tmp, and they may not apprechiate having 
> their files removed from underneath them everytime someone telnets in. ;)
> 

Not to mention when you kill a secondary session.  It's bogus.
However, discarding /tmp on *REBOOT* is legitimate.

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