[Nix-dev] Cleaning `/tmp' at boot time

[Christof Douma]

Hi,

Most distributions follow the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard suggestion in this (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/).

/tmp is cleaned on system boot
/var/tmp is not cleaned on system boot

I would suggest to do to something similar.

Cheers,
Christof

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 02:35:41PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> `/tmp' was never meant to store things in the long term, as the name
> implies.  We could make it an option, but then it should be "on" by
> default.  That's what people coming from other Linux distros or other
> Unices expect I think.  And it obviates the need to manually run "sudo
> rm -rf /tmp/*" on a running system that may contain bind mounts to
> /nix/store...