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29.0.50; Improve behavior of conditionals in Eshell

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Cc: jporterbugs <at> gmail.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, 57129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57129: 29.0.50; Improve behavior of conditionals in Eshell
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2022 14:29:49 +0300

> From: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
> Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, bug-gnulib <at> gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, 57129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jporterbugs <at> gmail.com
> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 22:06:13 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Emacs has a with-temp-file macro, which generates a temporary file
> > name, executes the body of the macro with a variable bound to the file
> > name, then deletes the file.  Very handy for writing test suites.
> 
> Since, even with Paul's newest patch, gen_tempname on 64-bit mingw
> produces the same file name as on the previous call with a probability
> of about 0.1%, you still need to be prepared to see the original problem
> occasionally.

I'll take that risk, thank you.

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