Re: [Emacs-diffs] trunk r113773: Gnus: delete temporary files when Gnus exits instead of using timers

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Katsumi Yamaoka <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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".

I think putting things in /tmp (under a subdirectory) is fine in
general.  There isn't much information leakage there -- the
subdirectories are created readable by the user only.

However, if these files linger on for months, then they may be picked up
by backup systems and the like, and that may not be what the user
expects.

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