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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 23331 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23331: 25.0.92; Cannot create temporary file ending in a period on OS X
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:47:04 +0300

> From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2016 09:30:40 -0700
> 
> 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.

Works like a charm on MS-Windows and GNU/Linux, FWIW.

Can you step with a debugger through the relevant C code?
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