GNU bug report logs - #14986
Latest Emacs trunk crashes when changing Ispell dictionary

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news <at> mygooglest.com>

Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:05:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #19 received at 14986-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news <at> mygooglest.com>, 14986-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#14986: Latest Emacs trunk crashes when changing Ispell
 dictionary
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:20 +0200

On 07/30/2013 10:01 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Why is this trickery needed for platforms that use mktemp?
I don't know; I think it may predate emacs_close,
but no matter, I checked in what I assume is a fix
in trunk bzr 113605, and am boldly closing the bug;
please feel free to reopen it if the fix doesn't work.

A couple of things.  First, callproc.c and process.c are rife
with race condition bugs that leak file descriptors and/or
files.  I'll try to compose a fix for that.

Second, any chance of getting mkostemp or at least mkstemp
working on Microsoft platforms?  Surely mktemp is inherently
prone to races.
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