bug#23331: 25.0.92; Cannot create temporary file ending in a period on OS X

[Glenn Morris]

Alan Third wrote:

> Can you try either running in a debugger and finding out what the
> ‘data’ variable contains at line 716 of fileio.c (just before
> ‘if (!check_existing (data))’), or putting something like:
>
>     printf("filename: %s\n", data);
>
> on that same line?
>
> The make_temp_name function generates a name and then tests to see if
> it already exists and it’s this test that’s throwing up the error. My
> first thought is that it’s possible that it’s generating an invalid
> file name, so it would be good to see exactly what that name is.
>
> Also, what’s the PWD?

No response in several months, closing.