Preventing automatic removal of whole directory in /tmp
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Preventing automatic removal of whole directory in /tmp
How to prevent MX automatically remove a whole directory in /tmp, i.e. it's correct that it must automatically wipe all directory's contents but must keep the directory itself live ?
No. In many distributions /tmp is not even a real directory, it is a virtual directory that does not survive shutdown (think a special kind of ramdrive).
Even where it is on physical storage, the entire purpose of /tmp is transient data that does not need to be retained past short term usage.
If you have something you need to retain, /tmp is the wrong home for it and you should find another place.
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