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23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today

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Message #85 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>
Cc: 865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#865: 23.0.60; The directory is unsafe today
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:06:39 +0200

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 01:01, Lennart Borgman (gmail)
<lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe it is better to just test if the file really was deleted then.

And, again, how would you guarantee that the file isn't created by
another process between the delete-file call and the check?

> The reason I want to test this is that errors in these parts often are
> confusing and hard to find. There could be something that prevents the
> file from beeing deleted.

The server file is deleted to make room for the new server file. If
writing it fails, you'll notice.

Are you chasing a real error, or the possibility of one?

   Juanma

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