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Re: emacs in ~/.cache


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: emacs in ~/.cache
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2023 23:56:21 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Michael Albinus wrote:

>> I have never seen ~/.cache/emacs populated with anything,
>> so what is its purpose?
>
> Tramp 2.7 (of Emacs 30) uses ~/.cache/emacs as temporary
> directory, if possible. The reason are
> security considerations.

I have a Tramp socket file there on Debian, it is the
only file.

It gets more secure that way?

What happens if you remove that directory, will it still work
the next time, just a similar file has to be created first
before use?

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