From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Roland Winkler <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, 2107@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#2107: temp-file-name-pattern vs temporary-file-directory
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:13:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzlh9iwyl.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3zlharrha.fsf@tfkp04.physik.uni-erlangen.de> (Roland Winkler's message of "Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:45:21 +0100")
> Recently I learned about the variable temp-file-name-pattern when
> under odd circumstances I didn't have access to /tmp. I was
> surprised that the default value of this variable was
> /tmp/emacsXXXXXX, thus ignoring my setting of
> temporary-file-directory. Shouldn't temp-file-name-pattern take into
> account the value of temporary-file-directory?
It looks like temp-file-name-pattern is specific to call-process-region,
and predates temporary-file-directory. call-process-region indeed
should be updated to use either make-temp-file or at least
temporary-file-directory. And temp-file-name-pattern should be dropped.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-29 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-01-29 16:45 ` bug#2107: temp-file-name-pattern vs temporary-file-directory Roland Winkler
2009-01-29 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-29 19:09 ` Roland Winkler
2009-01-29 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-01-30 18:25 ` bug#2107: marked as done (temp-file-name-pattern vs temporary-file-directory) Emacs bug Tracking System
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