I see. Of course I meant/tmp/* On Fri, Dec 30, 2022, 1:11 PM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-12-30 at 12:57 -0500, Bill C wrote: > > I usually use 'rm -rf /temp/*' and have been warned against it. I > > haven't seen any problems I know of happening because of this. > > Owing to how file unlinking works in UNIX/Linux systems, if a process > has a temporary file open when you delete it, it won't be removed until > the process terminates. However it's unwise to rely on this when a > temporary file might be closed and re-opened, including by a different > process. That could lead to unpredictable behaviour because of race > conditions. > > poc > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue >
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