GNU bug report logs - #44644
/tmp/emacs0/ not cleaned up upon exit

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:31:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 44644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 44644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#44644: /tmp/emacs0/ not cleaned up upon exit
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:00:03 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:06:43 +0100
> Cc: 44644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:
> 
> > Anyway leaving empty directories around after exit is bad when not root too.
> 
> True.  Looking at the code, it looks like having `server-start' add
> `server-force-delete' to `kill-emacs-query-functions' would do the
> trick?
> 
> Does anybody see any downsides to doing that?

What if the Emacs that's being killed is not the one that created the
server file?
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