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/tmp/emacs0/ not cleaned up upon exit

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Message #39 received at 44644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 44644 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#44644: /tmp/emacs0/ not cleaned up upon exit
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 07:13:36 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> I don't think it's kosher to delete $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, even if it's
> empty, since it is probably used by more than the server?  And if
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not defined, and we use a directory under /tmp,
> then the system cleans that up from time to time, doesn't it?
>
> So bottom line, I don't think we should do this, at least not
> unconditionally.

You raise some very good points.  Perhaps the only case where deleting
the directory is the one described in the subject?  I.e., when the
server directory has been created in `temporary-file-directory'?

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