tmpfiles: allow Age to be set to 0

Mostly useful for testing purposes. Setting Age to 1s works just as
well, but it is surprising that using 0s (or just 0) does not work.

Also clarify this in the documentation.

diff --git a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
index a86ef3369507fa3acdcc4fb16ce66d79bd378df0..86fa4394c022c10340fc63605c6c1aa0dae8db22 100644 (file)
--- a/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
+++ b/man/tmpfiles.d.xml
@@ -265,7 +265,12 @@ L    /tmp/foobar -    -    -    -   /dev/null</programlisting>
                         </variablelist>
 
                         <para>If multiple integers and units are specified the time
-                        values are summed up.</para>
+                        values are summed up. If an integer is given witohut a unit,
+                        s is assumed.
+                        </para>
+
+                        <para>When the age is set to zero, the files are cleaned
+                        unconditionally.</para>
 
                         <para>The age field only applies to lines starting with
                         d, D and x. If omitted or set to - no automatic clean-up

diff --git a/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c b/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c
index c32cbd1aea7d389d85f33dcef531f40c2333fec9..c27d0112f9d00a271578165fd79cd98ea2d2dea5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c
+++ b/src/tmpfiles/tmpfiles.c
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ static int clean_item(Item *i) {
             i->type != IGNORE_PATH)
                 return 0;
 
-        if (!i->age_set || i->age <= 0)
+        if (!i->age_set)
                 return 0;
 
         n = now(CLOCK_REALTIME);