Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Looking at your test program, I see that you generate the seconds file > name without deleting the first one. When a file by the first > generated name already exists, gen_tempname will indeed generate a > different name. But in the scenario I described, Emacs creates one > temporary file, uses it, then deletes it, and only after that creates > another file.
Why would it be important for the second temporary file to bear a different name, once the first one is gone? I mean, process IDs get reused over time; socket numbers get reused over time; what is wrong with reusing a file name, once the older file is gone? Maybe the problem is that the file gets deleted too early, when some parts of Emacs still reference it? Bruno
