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?
next prev parent 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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