I already noted that in my very first post, "How do I clean up? As I said, the app does not persist (so I can't defer os.Remove)"
I guess I wasn't quite clear about my intentions, so never mind, I'll just handle it somehow. Thanks all for your suggestions. On Monday, 21 November 2016 16:57:56 UTC, Val wrote: > > OK, I had overlooked the fact that cleanup is important to you, which > makes sense for security and to save disk space early. > TempFile, TempDir don't do the cleanup, but the OS will sooner or later. > Here is my new suggestion for a file > <http://www.programming-idioms.org/idiom/138/create-temp-file/1751/go> > and for a dir > <http://www.programming-idioms.org/idiom/139/create-temp-directory/1757/go> > : > > tmpfile, err := ioutil.TempFile("", "") > checkerr(err) > defer os.Remove(tmpfile.Name()) > > > dir, err := ioutil.TempDir("", "") > checkerr(err) > defer os.RemoveAll(dir) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.