[development] Temp file conflicts

Earnie Boyd earnie at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Jul 6 18:22:17 UTC 2007


Quoting Darren Oh <darrenoh at sidepotsinternational.com>:

> On Jul 5, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Boris Mann wrote:
>
>> Um. No. It really is temporary. The file gets removed by the
>> operations that happen. They are temporary files.....
>
> Enough "Um"s! I respect your contributions to Drupal, but you seem to 
>  be the only person who thinks this is an unreasonable feature.
>

Darren, I think you misunderstand Boris.  Process creates temp file.  
Process deletes temp file.  On some systems the files could be opened 
as delete on close; even on windows.  This would keep the system clean 
regardless of if the process is interrupted before deleting the file.

Earnie


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