runtime(doc): clarify temporary file clean up
Commit:
https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/5cf5301e2847c5a1a380ae030c58825b5c6fe275
Author: Christian Brabandt <c...@256bit.org>
Date: Sat May 18 10:13:11 2024 +0200
runtime(doc): clarify temporary file clean up
related: https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/14770
Co-authored-by: Enno <konf...@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brabandt <c...@256bit.org>
diff --git a/runtime/doc/builtin.txt b/runtime/doc/builtin.txt
index 1d06e750a..46819d6b9 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 16ad114f1..ff995fb1d 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
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