[Joey Schulze]: tramp should remove temporary files

[Sven Joachim]

Hello,

I received this via the Debian bug tracking system.  Comments?

Cheers,
       Sven


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> Bug#482760: tramp should remove temporary files
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> Sat, 24 May 2008 21:37:52 +0200
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> Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14)
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> Package: emacs22
> Version: 22.2+2-2
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> Looking at my /tmp I've gotton the strange feeling that tramp.el is
> not removing temporary files after their use.
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> Here's the reason for my feeling:
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> finlandia!joey(pts/42):/tmp> ls -l tramp* | wc -l
> 1264
> finlandia!joey(pts/42):/tmp> 
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> It's using a tempfile for each transfer, I guess.  Thus, editing files
> remotely will cause hundereds if not thousands of temporary files.
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> Regards,
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>         Joey
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