Re: Possible bugs in org-babel-temp-stable-file (was: [PATCH] Add light argument to org-babel-lob-get-info)

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Ferdinand Pieper <fer@pie.tf> writes:

>> Have you seen org-babel-temp-stable-file?
>
> I have not. Seems really useful, thanks for mentioning. I wrote my functions before org-babel-temp-stable-file was added, but seems I can simplify them now quite a bit.
>
> I noticed two possible bugs in org-babel-temp-stable-file:
>
> 1. Prefix could be an empty string and that would break the filename extension, because (expand-file-name "" org-babel-temporary-stable-directory) would not add a slash in the path.

Fixed now.
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/commit/?id=69e3a4db3d0c54b4165761f56523da4962eff74c

> 2. The org-babel-temporary-stable-directory is only created upon initial loading. But the intended behavior for remote paths seems to be to create the temp files on the remote. Which will fail, because org-babel-temporary-stable-directory does not exist on the remote. However creating the directories on remotes of course makes cleanup harder to impossible, if the remotes are not accessible any more.

For remotes, we fall back to org-babel-remote-temporary-directory.
Apparently in all but one place in code. Now fixed.

> It could also be nice to add an extra argument to force the use of the local org-babel-temporary-stable-directory for remote files.

I am not sure if it is a good idea.
On remote files, default-directory often points to the remote making
`shell-command' and similar run code on remote machine. It may not work
well with local temporary directory.

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