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23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

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From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:40:46 +0200

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> 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?


Forgot that discussion. Yes, but why not check the error returned instead?

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