[thaumasiotes]

> Turned out that the application was writing a bunch of tempfiles into the cwd and then immediately deleting them.

> I worked around the issue by making the application reuse tempfile names.

Knowing nothing about the issue beyond what you've written here...

why not make the application create a directory for its tempfiles, and then remove that directory along with the tempfiles?

[ungamedplayer]

additionally, there may be a security issue in reusing temporary filenames.

[cespare]

Yeah, I also moved the tempfiles to a more appropriate location at the same time.