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From: "積丹尼 Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@jidanni.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 44644@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44644: /tmp/emacs0/ not cleaned up upon exit
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2020 06:34:47 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eekecttk.5.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a6vjk9ep.8.fsf@jidanni.org>

>>>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
LI> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> I actually don't share the feeling of an annoyance here: /tmp is
>> regularly cleaned up anyway, right?  But that's me.

LI> Only on reboot, and some people have machines running for months, so
LI> keeping /tmp clean-ish is something programs usually try to do.

Indeed. What if every program had the attitude "Gee, I don't know how to
deal with my garbage. Maybe I'll just leave it sitting here and the
Environmental Protection Bureau will do something with it."

Because 99% of programs are environmentally responsible, that why /tmp
is still usable!

Else it would quickly cause even your SSD to stop spinning.





      reply	other threads:[~2020-11-27 22:34 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
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 [this message]

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