Deleting concatenation directories

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@ccs.neu.edu>]

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>>>>> "SLB" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

SLB> If you use X u for decoding, a new, temporary directory is created
SLB> in /tmp.  Everything in that directory gets deleted automatically
SLB> when the group is exited.

I have found two cases where the directory and possibly its contents are
not deleted.  First, the rare case when an NFS link file is extant
within the directory the rmdir fails.  Second, when you 'X u' on a
recursive zipfile subdirectories are created within the catenation
directory and these are not deleted by the 'rm *' command.

Actually, there is a third.  If you C-g while Gnus is exiting a group
but before the directory is removed and then exit the group again it
will remain in the same state as at the interrupt.

This is with Gnus 5.0.x; I cannot say for September (wonderful XEmacs
issues :).

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