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25.0.92; Cannot create temporary file ending in a period on OS X

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: 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

John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> 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

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