[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #32158] Error of deleting a file file path which begins with '\' on MinGW

[Tatsuro MATSUOKA]

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #32158 (project octave):

>Why are temporary file names like 'octave-help-xxxxxx' being generated?

I do not find out the reason.

>Are those valid filenames on Windows systems?
Yes it is.

Below the pacth
***************
      for i = 1:length (files)
        file = files{i};
        [err, msg] = unlink (file);
        if (err)
          warning ("delete: %s: %s", file, msg);
        endif
***************

'unlink' cannot detele 'octave-help-xxxx' but can delete 'C:octave-help-xxxx'
so that I added current drive name like 'C:'. 

>What is the value of P_tmpdir in your version of Octave
*************
debug> P_tmpdir
ans = 
***************

My windows setting for environmental variable tmp is
*******************
octave:2> getenv('tmp')
ans = C:DOCUME~1TatsuLOCALS~1Temp

If unlink can delete a file patch name of which begins from '', this patch is
not required.



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