On 11/18/24 20:06, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
I am getting flooded with tmp files. I though
I was erasing them (unlink). What am I doing
wrong:
use File::Temp;
...
my Str $TmpFile = $?FILE;
$TmpFile ~~ s| .* $( Q[/] ) ||; # we need just the name
$TmpFile ~~ s| $( Q[.] ) .* ||;
($TmpFile, $TmpHandle) = tempfile(:tempdir("."), $TmpFile ~ "_******" ~
".tmp" );
...
($TmpFile, $TmpHandle) = tempfile(:tempdir("."), :!unlink);
It seems that all my tmp files are being removed
when my program exits normally. It was crashing
until I fix a problem.
But why wait till the program exits when I tell
it to unlink before that?