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From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: 23331@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23331: 25.0.92; Cannot create temporary file ending in a period on OS X
Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 21:25:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2h9dk1s94.fsf@breton.holly.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2eg9yapqn.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Thu,  21 Apr 2016 09:30:40 -0700")

John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not sure if this is a Mac problem, or an Emacs 25 problem, but it occurs
> with the latest emacs-25 on OS X 10.10:
>
>     M-: (make-temp-name "index.magit.") RET
>
> Will report the error:
>
>     Cannot create temporary name for prefix: Bad file descriptor, index.magit.
>
> I discovered this because Magit 2.6 uses temporary files with such a name.

Hi John, I've just tried this out on my own Mac (10.11) and it's working fine.
Are you still getting the error?
-- 
Alan Third





  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-05-26 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-21 16:30 bug#23331: 25.0.92; Cannot create temporary file ending in a period on OS X John Wiegley
2016-04-21 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-26 20:25 ` Alan Third [this message]
2016-07-19 19:41   ` Alan Third
2016-07-19 20:03     ` John Wiegley
2016-07-19 21:47       ` Alan Third
2016-12-07 20:38         ` Glenn Morris

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