RE: [Gnu-arch-users] RE: recent changes

[Derek Zhou]

John A Meinel wrote:
> Well, on newer Redhat machines, it runs a cleanup program. Any file
> which hasn't been touched within the last 2 weeks is deleted.
> So it doesn't even require a reboot to cause problems. The really
> dangerous part is that it might delete some of the files, but 
> not all of
> them. It was a really weird case, but it is another reason why /tmp
> isn't great.
This may turn out to be a good thing after all (limitting the size of a
revlib). tla can reliably detect corrupted revlib, and we can probably
automate the regeneration when such thing occurs. 
> John
> =:->
> 
> 
> 
Derek