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, 6 May 2024 at 22:27, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
That also works, but only as long as mmdebootstrap is actually
running, and as far as I understand it is not a long-running service,
not sure if it works for this use case
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