[Sugar-devel] [PATCH] Cleanup temporary files on startup (v2)

[James Cameron]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 08:54:42PM +0200, Sascha Silbe wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 02:42:32PM -0400, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> 
> >+# Remove temporary files. See http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1876
> >+rm -rf $HOME/.sugar/${SUGAR_PROFILE:-default}/data/*
> Why -rf? There should only be hard links, i.e. files in there (=> no
> -r required). Also they are created by the data store, so they
> should have the user running the rm as owner (even with Rainbow) and
> be writable, so no -f required.

I have no problem with the -rf, since the conditions you describe may
later change.

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James Cameron
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