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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 04:11:31 -0500
From: Russ Cox <russcox@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mkstemp()
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> I hope temporal filename is made clear so that I can safely remove
> files that are no longer required .
> In my /tmp, there are many temporal files that is created by acme
> and others.
> I hesitate whether I can safely remove these annoying files.

If you log in and don't start any programs, then it's safe
to remove everything in /tmp (unless you have precious data
stored there!).

To find out what is being used in /tmp, grep /tmp /proc/*/fd.

Russ