From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: w32-find-bdf-fonts does not close file handles of files examined
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:51:54 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <utzt0p2xh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46799C23.9080205@gnu.org> (message from Jason Rumney on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:29:07 +0100)
> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:29:07 +0100
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> Michael Schierl wrote:
> > Start with emacs -Q and run this code:
> >
> > (let* ((tmpdir (make-temp-file "bugdir-" t))
> > (tmpfile (expand-file-name "dummy.bdf" tmpdir)))
> > (with-current-buffer (find-file-noselect tmpfile)
> > (insert "STARTFONT 2.1\n")
> > (save-buffer 0))
> > (w32-find-bdf-fonts tmpdir)
> > (delete-file tmpfile)
> > (delete-directory tmpdir))
> >
> > It will signal an error at delete-file because it cannot delete the
> > given file.
>
> Thanks for the report. I have fixed this in the Emacs 22 branch now.
> Although the file was being closed, it was still mapped into memory, so
> the OS was keeping it open.
Btw, why are we using memory-mapped files for this functionality?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-22 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-20 20:28 w32-find-bdf-fonts does not close file handles of files examined Michael Schierl
2007-06-20 21:29 ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-22 12:51 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-06-22 13:22 ` Jason Rumney
2007-06-22 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
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