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Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113773: Gnus: delete temporary files when Gnus
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Katsumi Yamaoka |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113773: Gnus: delete temporary files when Gnus exits instead of using timers |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:03:24 +0900 |
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Gnus/5.130008 (真 Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 (i686-pc-cygwin) |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>> I don't think there "a solution". You could mix the two previous
>> solutions: have a timer erase the files after some time, plus have an
>> exit-hook that also deletes the files.
> Yes. Having the files in /tmp linger for a "long time" is not what
> users expect, I think, and may lead to privacy problems.
Yes, we should think much of privacy. A better way would be to
set $TMPDIR, $TEMP, $TMP, and so forth to someting like "~/tmp".
> So Gnus should delete the files "as fast as possible", which may not
> be very fast, but should be quicker than the Emacs lifetime.
> So I think deleting on Emacs exit is good, but there should be a timer
> to delete things "fast". Like, one minute, perhaps? Surely even the
> xgd launcher must have managed to start and read the file by then?
Ok, I've restored a timer that tries to delete a temporary file
and its directory 1 minute after launching a viewer.
(Though the deletion will fail on Windows or Cygwin if a viewer
is a Windows application, MS Office, AcroRd, etc. for example.)