(A)synchronous file operations & xdg-open

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Jerry James<loganjerry at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am more and more of the opinion that xdg-open is simply the wrong
> tool for viewing/editing temporary files.  It wasn't built for that
> use case, and the tools it invokes were not either.

I think the easiest fix here is for the app not to delete the
temporary file immediately after the helper exits.  Just write it in
$TMPDIR and let tempreaper come along and eat it later.