GNU bug report logs - #865
23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:10:05 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 3281, 4197, 8787

Found in version 23.3

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Message #65 received at 865 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>,
        865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 00:38:18 +0200

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 21:10, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
<lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> BTW there is a
>
>  (ignore-errors (delete-file server-file))
>
> in server-start. I do not like the ignore-errors there. Check if the
> file is there first and if it is delete it.

How are you going to guarantee that the file isn't deleted by another
process between the check and the delete-file call?

  Juanma
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