Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 435761
vim leaves behind /tmp/cscope.NNNN directories
Last modified: 2008-04-24 06:57:40 EDT
Description of problem: Using Vim with default .vimrc and the cscope package installed, causes directories /tmp/cscope.NNNN to be left behind after Vim exits. (NNNN is the process ID). This is apparently a bug in Vim, not cscope: http://groups.google.com/group/vim_dev/browse_thread/thread/8651ddaa124dc6c5 After many such directories have appeared, Vim will occasionally spit out the following error on startup (actually from cscope): Error detected while processing /etc/vimrc: line 32: cs_read_prompt EOF: Illegal seek E609: Cscope error: cscope: Could not create private temp dir /tmp/cscope.11195 This is due to the directory already existing from a previous run. In order to fully resolve this problem, Vim needs patching, and all existing /tmp/cscope.* directories need to be purged. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): vim-common-7.1.211-1.fc8 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: yum install vim-enhanced yum install cscope vim <anyfile> ls -d /tmp/cscope.* Actual results: Directories /tmp/cscope.* left behind when vim exits. Expected results: The /tmp/cscope.* directories should be removed when vim exits. Additional info:
upstream is aware of this and is preparing a patch: http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c200803021233.m22CXZDu027580%40moolenaar.net%3e
I've applied the patch mentioned in #1 (obtained from the following URL http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.vim.devel/18908/raw to avoid HTML encoding) on top vim-common-7.1.211-1.fc8 and can confirm that it solves the problem for me. I used the following scriptlet to cleanup the mess left in /tmp. It takes care not to destroy any active cscope sessions. ls -d /tmp/cscope.* | sed -e 's#/tmp/cscope.##' | while read PID ; do if test -e /proc/$PID && grep -q cscope /proc/$PID/cmdline ; then echo Active session in /tmp/cscope.$PID ; else rm -f /tmp/cscope.$PID ; fi ; done
And of course I have a typo: we want "rm -rf" so it will remove the directory, not just -f option. I had put an "echo" in front of the "rm" for testing purposes...
This is fixed in vim-7.1.281 or newer. This didn't make it into F9-Beta, but will be in F9. In the meantime you can download packages from http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=519581
*** Bug 443952 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***