GNU bug report logs - #26353
GuixSD /tmp cleaner fails to clean when Umlauts like "ä" are used in filenames

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Message #66 received at 26353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Nils Gillmann <ng0 <at> n0.is>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: 26353 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#26353: GuixSD /tmp cleaner fails to clean when Umlauts like "ä" are used in filenames
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 20:17:35 +0000

Danny Milosavljevic transcribed 249 bytes:
> > The problem of how to deal with file name encoding has been discussed on
> > the Guile side so hopefully the next release in the 2.2 series will have
> > a solution for this.
> 
> Hmm, any news on this?  I've again got some immortal files in /tmp ...

Did it ever work for you? I can't recall a single time in my years with
GuixSD when /tmp was cleaned. It was only when I started reading more
system specific code that I found out that the lack of /tmp cleaning
on shutdown is not a default.

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