GNU bug report logs - #15647
24.3.50; python.el does not clean up temp file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jorgen Schaefer <forcer <at> forcix.cx>

Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 18:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.3.50

Fixed in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 15647 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15647 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
Subject: Re: bug#15647: 24.3.50; python.el does not clean up temp file
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 14:27:46 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> In fact, in this case, even on Unix this proposal will cause trouble,
> because the command sent to Python might take time to execute on the
> Python side, and we might already have deleted the file when Python
> tries to open it.

Whut?
It's python itself that deletes the file, as the last thing in the file.
So it's already done whatever it was supposed to actually do.
It's like a self-deleting shell script.
FWIW, the patch looks fine to me (I say this was zero testing of it).
This bug report was last modified 11 years and 266 days ago.

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