On 05.08.10 16:41, Julian Gilbey wrote: Hi Julian, This seems to be similar to #601237. Is the issue still present? Hilmar > Running texdoc pgf opens an evince window, but evince complains that > there is No such file or directory. > > I have tracked down the problem: view.tlu runs the command (split over > two lines; the Xb... is of course a unique directory name): > > (gnome-open "/tmp/texdoc.Xbpoq3/pgfmanual.pdf"; rm -f > "/tmp/texdoc.Xbpoq3/pgfmanual.pdf"; rmdir /tmp/texdoc.Xbpoq3) & > > What happens is that gnome-open is called, but gnome-open disconnects > from the running process very quickly, so that by the time evince > fires up, the file and directory have already been deleted. > > I am unsure what the correct solution would be. I think that the > simplest might be to have a "wait" command after the file opening > command; the presence of the backgrounding process should alleviate > problems this causes. > -- sigfault #206401 http://counter.li.org
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