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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:28:01 +0000
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Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca> asked:

> > The author told me he didn't want to do it.
> 
> ?? meaning that it was autogenerated via bison, flex or whatever
> This is common pratice not only for temp files but for security reasons,
> cleanup, .... If it is only for temp files then a portable way
> could be FILE * tempfile(void);

Meaning the author did it without any special purpose, just acustomed. 
Perhaps even a cut & paste of code.
 
> > > You mean some sort of reference count.  This will not work if you
> > > don't have support from the OS.
> > 
> > It will work, but not 100% equal, at least the file will be removed. In Win95 
> > the unlink of an opened file fails so doing what I say the file will be 
> > deleted and the program will work. In DOS there is no solution.
> > 
> 
> I meant, if someone start a comand.com shell and erase the files you'll
> have chaos.  It may work within DJGPP env. since the environment/lib
> will maintain a consistent view for you.  That may not be acceptable
> for certain people/application.

In Win95 the user won't be able to delete the file from the comand.com.

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