[Bug 1415974] Re: Cleaning a directory in /tmp during boot updates the directory's modification time

[Ken Sharp]

** Summary changed:

- Cleaning a directory in /tmp during boot updates the folder's modification time
+ Cleaning a directory in /tmp during boot updates the directory's modification time

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Title:
  Cleaning a directory in /tmp during boot updates the directory's
  modification time

Status in sysvinit package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  When set to anything other than 0 (clean all of /tmp), /tmp is cleaned
  of "old" files, but in doing so it updates the modification times of
  all the directories, so that they remain until they themselves become
  "old".

  I hope this makes sense, an example:

  During boot files in /tmp older than three days will be cleaned.
  Files in /tmp/olddir will be cleaned.
  /tmp/olddir will have its modification time updated, it is no longer an old directory.
  /tmp/olddir is left behind because it is not recognised as an old directory.

  It's minor and may be impossible to fix, but is there any magic that
  can be done to remove the old directories at boot rather than waiting
  for the directory to "expire" again? Is it possible to avoid the
  modification time being updated?

  Simply removing the whole directory based on its creation or
  modification times, without first checking its contents for newer
  files, would probably not be preferable.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: initscripts 2.88dsf-13.10ubuntu11.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-26.45~precise1-generic 3.11.10.12
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-26-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.8
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Jan 29 15:13:27 2015
  MarkForUpload: True
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: sysvinit
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2014-12-07 (53 days ago)

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