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call-with-temporary-directory rarely cleans up after itself |
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Wed, 11 Jul 2018 14:59:37 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.10.0 (2018-05-17) |
While testing something, I noticed that temporary directories created
with ((guix utils) call-with-temporary-directory) were not being
deleted.
This procedure is documented to delete the directories after execution:
"Call PROC with a name of a temporary directory; close the directory and
delete it when leaving the dynamic extent of this call."
It uses rmdir, which is documented as follows: "Remove the existing
directory named by path. The directory must be empty for this to
succeed." [0]
I think this is a case where one expects the directory to be deleted as
with `rm -rf`, regardless of whether or not it is empty.
Should we alter the call-with-temporary-directory procedure to use
((guix build utils) delete-file-recursively)?
[0]
https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/File-System.html#index-rmdir
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Re: bug#32126: call-with-temporary-directory rarely cleans up after itself |
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Fri, 13 Jul 2018 17:34:30 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.10.0 (2018-05-17) |
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 05:37:18PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Leo,
>
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:
>
> > Should we alter the call-with-temporary-directory procedure to use
> > ((guix build utils) delete-file-recursively)?
>
> Yes, definitely. Note that you can alter (guix utils) without fear of a
> full rebuild, so you can go ahead and do that in ‘master’.
Great, pushed as 27f7cbc91d1963118e44b14d04fcc669c9618176.
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