GNU bug report logs - #79280
package installation leaks tar-mode data buffers

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattias.engdegard <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 79280 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#79280: package installation leaks tar-mode data buffers
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:06:15 -0400

> that is the problem: tar-mode will generate a helper buffer which is
> normally removed when the tar-mode buffer is killed, but temporary
> buffers inhibit the kill-buffer-hook so that never happens.

Maybe we should be more careful when we skip `kill-buffer-hook`.
Maybe we should run the local part of the hook (and skip the global part)?


        Stefan
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