open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/776

Yet again, I find myself with my /sbbs/tmp directory stuffed with old, empty SBBS_SSJS.*.html files.

Please have the web thread delete these files during shutdown.

$ ls -l SBBS*.html|wc -l
2376

Since June 26th.
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https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/776#note_5596

The web server (web thread) already tracks temp files it creates and deletes them. If there are temp files left in your temp directory after sbbs has terminated, that's most likely due to an sbbs crash (e.g. segfault).

The temp directory can be shared with other processes, so the web server can't just blindly go deleting every file in the temp directory during shutdown (as seems to be the request here).
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