Re: Re: Make /tmp/ a tmpfs and cleanup /var/tmp/ on a timer by default [was: Re: systemd: tmpfiles.d not cleaning /var/tmp by default]
On Mon, 06 May 2024 at 22:08:56 +0200, Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues wrote:
> If [files can be deleted automatically while mmdebstrap is using them],
> how should applications guard against that from
> happening?
As documented in tmpfiles.d(5), if mmdebstrap takes out an exclusive
flock(2) lock on its chroot's root directory, systemd-tmpfiles should
fail to take out its own lock on the directory during cleanup, and
respond to that by treating the directory as "in use" and skipping it.
smcv
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