Re: org-persist files in /tmp

[Ruijie Yu via "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>]

Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:

> hi, Ihor,
>
>> Do we need to care about cleaning up /tmp?
>
> my two cents is that maybe one should not care so much about cleaning up
> /tmp, but i think it's worthwhile trying not to clutter it up too much.
>
> cheers, Greg

One possible approach to this is to have all org-persist related
temporary directories into an overall "$TMPDIR/org-persist" directory.
That is, assuming that the parent directory exists, we create
org-persist temporary directories as "$TMPDIR/org-persist/XXXXXX" and
everything else would remain the same.

The downside for this approach is that, since `make-tempfile' only makes
a mkdir() call in its underlying function try_dir() assuming the
existence of its parents [1, 2], we would probably have to create the
parent via `(mkdir DIR t)' before every `make-tempfile' call within
org-persist.

[1] emacs/src/fileio.c
[2] emacs/lib/tempname.c

Best,


RY