Re: org-persist files in /tmp

[Tim Cross]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> for some reason, I am now getting many (tens) directories of the form
>> org-persist-NNNNNN in /tmp.  These seem to include an index file and a
>> cache type sub-directory structure.  Why are these there and does
>> anything clean them up?
>>
>> I have nothing related to org-persist in my configuration that I can
>> see.
>
> If you run something like make test or emacs -Q + org, it is expected.
> These are throwaway directories used by org-persist for emacs -Q.
>
> Do we need to care about cleaning up /tmp?

Probably not - at least not on most modern Linux systems as these tend
to have a systemd task which will clean up the temp directories on
reboot. You can usually tweak the settings for systemd-tempfiles if you
want to modify when and how often temporary files are cleaned up.