On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Angus Leeming wrote:
> However, the real change I would like is in the implementation. I
> would like to 'unlink' the generated temporary file. It's a royal
> PITA in my view and the function name offers no suggestion that it'll
> generate a file; that's just an implementation detail in my view.
>
> So, my fs::path version of tempName is:
>
> fs::path const tempName(fs::path const & dir,
> string const & prefix, string const & suffix)
> {
> string const temp = tempName(dir.native_file_string(), prefix);
> // Remove the temp file, we only want the name...
> unlink(temp);
> // Append the suffix;
> return fs::path(temp + suffix, fs::native);
> }
>
> Is anybody unhappy with this change?
The following might be a minuscule problem:
unlink() deletes the file right?
So if the temporary file was created in e.g. /tmp, theoretically some
other process might "steal" the name if it's been deleted?
/Christian
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