GNU bug report logs - #23331
25.0.92; Cannot create temporary file ending in a period on OS X

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 16:32:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible

Found in version 25.0.92

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #27 received at 23331-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 23331-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23331: 25.0.92;
 Cannot create temporary file ending in a period on OS X
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 15:38:14 -0500

Alan Third wrote:

> Can you try either running in a debugger and finding out what the
> ‘data’ variable contains at line 716 of fileio.c (just before
> ‘if (!check_existing (data))’), or putting something like:
>
>     printf("filename: %s\n", data);
>
> on that same line?
>
> The make_temp_name function generates a name and then tests to see if
> it already exists and it’s this test that’s throwing up the error. My
> first thought is that it’s possible that it’s generating an invalid
> file name, so it would be good to see exactly what that name is.
>
> Also, what’s the PWD?

No response in several months, closing.
This bug report was last modified 8 years and 203 days ago.

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