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

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Message #54 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: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:25:13 +0100

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

>> We could literally just check whether the parent of server-socket-dir is
>> "/tmp" and only delete then.  It'd be pretty defensive, but should fix
>> this minor annoyance.
>
> If no better ideas come to mind, yes.

OK, done.

> I actually don't share the feeling of an annoyance here: /tmp is
> regularly cleaned up anyway, right?  But that's me.

Only on reboot, and some people have machines running for months, so
keeping /tmp clean-ish is something programs usually try to do.

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