Empty temporary directories are not removed (observed on OS X)

[posita]

This may be a problem with AtomLinter in general, but I am observing it on OS X with linter-pylint.

Every time I make a change to a file, a temporary directory (e.g., AtomLinter115411-4367-112mt9bsource.python) is created in my ${TMPDIR}. This is totally understandable.

However, once AtomLinter is finished doing its business, those directories are not removed (despite now being empty), so there end up being thousands of them (so many that rm -fr "${TMPDIR}/AtomLinter"* won't work because the command line is too long after expansion).

This is annoying. It would be nice if these directories were removed automatically.

If this issue is more appropriate to the core package, please let me know, and I'll refile it there.

[posita]

Oops! Closing this as a dup of steelbrain/linter#454 (and probably steelbrain/linter#522). 😊