That's great, thanks a lot.

Any chance you could do the same for .darcs-temp-mail?

>> quite the opposite, it should be a file that newbies will
>> notice straight away.
[...]
> Finally, Ian suggested the file should be put in _darcs somewhere
> instead.  Do others agree?

I disagree -- I want the file to be easy to spot.

> The number of parameters for these functions is getting a bit large.
> I wonder if there is a better way?

So do I.  Anyone got an idea?

> Also, I'm not sure calling world_readable_temp directly is what we
> want, since there could be a race condition.

Well, only if someone removes the file we've created behind our back,
so it's not really serious.

> Perhaps it would be better to open the file handle as soon as we get
> it?  I attempted this, but there are so many file-related wrappers
> in Darcs that I got overwhelmed with how to go about this.

I agree on both counts.

                                        Juliusz


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