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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 44644@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#44644: /tmp/emacs0/ not cleaned up upon exit
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 15:41:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sg8wqlpw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dqa2cbz.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed,  25 Nov 2020 07:13:36 +0100)

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: jidanni@jidanni.org,  44644@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:13:36 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > I don't think it's kosher to delete $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, even if it's
> > empty, since it is probably used by more than the server?  And if
> > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not defined, and we use a directory under /tmp,
> > then the system cleans that up from time to time, doesn't it?
> >
> > So bottom line, I don't think we should do this, at least not
> > unconditionally.
> 
> You raise some very good points.  Perhaps the only case where deleting
> the directory is the one described in the subject?  I.e., when the
> server directory has been created in `temporary-file-directory'?

At most, yes.  The problem is, it isn't easy to know when the
directory is under /tmp (we don't use temporary-file-directory, for
the reasons explained in the comment to server-socket-dir).  Maybe we
should put some special property on server-dir when that is the case?





  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-26 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-14 19:47 bug#44644: /tmp/emacs0/ not cleaned up upon exit 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-11-16 23:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-17 15:00   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-17 15:21     ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-11-24  5:42     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-24  8:48       ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-24  8:52         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-24  9:29           ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-24 15:28       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-24 15:41         ` Jean Louis
2020-11-25  6:13         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-26 13:41           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-27  7:48             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-27  8:12               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-27  8:22                 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-27  8:25                 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-27 22:34                   ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson

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