From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113773: Gnus: delete temporary files when Gnus exits instead of using timers
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 07:06:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fvufmr9s.fsf@Rainer.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b4m61vb200z.fsf@jpl.org
Katsumi Yamaoka writes:
>> Yes. Having the files in /tmp linger for a "long time" is not what
>> users expect, I think, and may lead to privacy problems.
>
> Yes, we should think much of privacy. A better way would be to
> set $TMPDIR, $TEMP, $TMP, and so forth to someting like "~/tmp".
Not only is this not a better solution, but makes things potentially
much worse. It is not uncommon to have everything in $HOME subject to
automatic backup and also not uncommon to not have enough space in $HOME
to function reliably as $TMPDIR. Emacs shouldn't make changes to how
the environment is set up when it cannot know how the system is set up.
These days TMPDIR is often pointing to a private space anyway (as far as
a file on disk can be private).
Regards,
Achim.
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2013-08-09 14:08 ` [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113773: Gnus: delete temporary files when Gnus exits instead of using timers Stefan Monnier
2013-08-09 23:16 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2013-08-10 2:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-11 20:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2013-08-12 1:03 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2013-08-12 5:06 ` Achim Gratz [this message]
2013-08-12 13:20 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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