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| author | Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> | 2024-05-18 10:13:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org> | 2024-05-18 10:15:04 +0200 |
| commit | 5cf5301e2847c5a1a380ae030c58825b5c6fe275 (patch) | |
| tree | 1120801f9dbd9faf715671a927875ec8d83a339e /runtime/doc | |
| parent | 94043780196cc66d23eeec10e2c722c6552324e0 (diff) | |
runtime(doc): clarify temporary file clean up
related: #14770
Co-authored-by: Enno <Konfekt@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <cb@256bit.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'runtime/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/builtin.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | runtime/doc/change.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt index 1d06e750a6..46819d6b9f 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*builtin.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 May 15 +*builtin.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 May 18 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -10243,7 +10243,9 @@ tempname() *tempname()* *temp-file-name* is different for at least 26 consecutive calls. Example: > :let tmpfile = tempname() :exe "redir > " .. tmpfile -< For Unix, the file will be in a private directory |tempfile|. +< For Unix, the file will be in a private directory |tempfile| + that is recursively deleted when Vim exits, on other systems + temporary files are not cleaned up automatically on exit. For MS-Windows forward slashes are used when the 'shellslash' option is set, or when 'shellcmdflag' starts with '-' and 'shell' does not contain powershell or pwsh. diff --git a/runtime/doc/change.txt b/runtime/doc/change.txt index 16ad114f19..ff995fb1de 100644 --- a/runtime/doc/change.txt +++ b/runtime/doc/change.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -*change.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 May 05 +*change.txt* For Vim version 9.1. Last change: 2024 May 18 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar @@ -623,7 +623,8 @@ Vim uses temporary files for filtering, generating diffs and also for tempname(). For Unix, the file will be in a private directory (only accessible by the current user) to avoid security problems (e.g., a symlink attack or other people reading your file). When Vim exits the directory and -all files in it are deleted. When Vim has the setuid bit set this may cause +all files in it are deleted (only on Unix, on other systems you will have to +clean up yourself). When Vim has the setuid bit set this may cause problems, the temp file is owned by the setuid user but the filter command probably runs as the original user. Directory for temporary files is created in the first of these directories |