POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES

Posted Sep 9, 2009 21:03 UTC (Wed) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)
In reply to: POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES by jzbiciak
Parent article: POSIX v. reality: A position on O_PONIES

> Keeping the contents of /tmp across a crash may be useful for forensics (ie. "why did we crash?") and maybe rescuing a couple things,

But doing so is far more likely to cause problems than to help solve them.