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Date:	Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:30:33 -0700
From:	Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: A workaround for Unix-style temporary files
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Nate Eldredge wrote:
> 
> > Also, IMHO, it's a misfeature.  When your program crashes, data in
> > tempfiles could be extremely helpful to debugging it.
> 
> If this is a misfeature, it is in the application's code: if they want
> the temporary files to stay, they need to provide an option that
> avoids removing them.
> 
> In contrast, this thread was about the *library*.  If an application
> _wants_ to remove temporary files, I think the library has no business
> enforcing its ideas about such files on the programmer.  After all, we
> already have `tmpfile' which does remove the file on close.

Okay, on reconsideration I think you are right.  I was confusing some
different things.

Nevertheless, I still think the proposed "remove temp files on SIGSEGV"
is a bad idea.  It's overly complex, and the payoff is minimal.
-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com

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