From: Craig Skinner <Skinner@Britvault.Co.UK>
Subject: Re: Earlier /tmp cleanup in /etc/rc
To: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>, Andrew Hewus Fresh <andrew@afresh1.com>, tech@openbsd.org, kn@openbsd.org
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:33:45 +0100

Hiyas,


On Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:14:25 -0600 "Theo de Raadt" wrote:
> 3) With an inode freed up for mktemp, create a directory and move all
> the deleteable files into that directory and remove it asyncronously.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Of course, the failure to remove files will be noisy, so the entire
> contraption redirects errors to /dev/null.


If the asynchronous removes are done in a batch(1) job:-
*) root would get an email of any problems
*) the boot process would be quieter.