Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 11:39:36 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: A workaround for Unix-style temporary files
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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.