From 5ff338d4ace47fba7058c2ced47c21579c2b606c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josef Heinen <j.heinen@fz-juelich.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:34:10 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] use temporary files when generating MIME files

---
 src/backends/gr.jl | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/backends/gr.jl b/src/backends/gr.jl
index 34a22274..bc011250 100644
--- a/src/backends/gr.jl
+++ b/src/backends/gr.jl
@@ -896,11 +896,14 @@ for (mime, fmt) in _gr_mimeformats
     @eval function _writemime(io::IO, ::MIME{Symbol($mime)}, plt::Plot{GRBackend})
         GR.emergencyclosegks()
         wstype = haskey(ENV, "GKS_WSTYPE") ? ENV["GKS_WSTYPE"] : "0"
+        filepath = tempname() * "." * $fmt
         ENV["GKS_WSTYPE"] = $fmt
+        ENV["GKS_FILEPATH"] = filepath
         gr_display(plt)
         GR.emergencyclosegks()
-        write(io, readall("gks." * $fmt))
+        write(io, readall(filepath))
         ENV["GKS_WSTYPE"] = wstype
+        rm(filepath)
     end
 end