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From: mick@auspyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: unlinking open files (was Re: Seek on a pipe)
Message-ID: <6695@auspyr.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 12:10:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 18 12:10:23 1987
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in article <7074@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) says:
>  * We use the despicable trick of unlinking an open temporary file.
>  * The alternatives are too painful.  

I've often wondered about this.

In the old days, I went through the pain of ensuring temp files
were deleted by cleanup routines called before each exit point
and upon catching nasty signals.

Then the above trick occurred to me (must've been one afternoon
after an especially heavy session at Ralph's)(AT&T joke)

I've thought long and hard about it and can't see any good reason
not to do this.  Obviously, during development it is nice to leave
temp files around etc etc....

But for real-world honest-to-god live applications, this seems like the
best solution to avoid leaving temp file clutter lying around
on poorly understood and administered Unix boxes.

Comments anyone?

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