From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-08-21T06:32:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:25007] Re: [Bug #1494] tempfile#unlink may silently fail 	on windows

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Jeremy Kemper<redmine@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> Issue #1494 has been updated by Jeremy Kemper.
>
>
> Please revert this change. It's causing major issues for everyone BUT windows.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/rack-devel/browse_thread/thread/a2aab3a4720f34c4
>
> Please restore the previous, sane behavior and come up a different, non-regressive fix for the original concern.
>
> It's bad enough, and there's no response to the issue, to fork the tempfile stdlib: http://github.com/FooBarWidget/better/blob/master/lib/better/tempfile.rb#L28

Sorry to chime in, but why when it rescue the Errno::EACCES, it
doesn't close and then retry? Instead of just silently fail.

http://github.com/FooBarWidget/better/blob/master/lib/better/tempfile.rb#L336

If the error is known, and the workaround is also known, why we should
keep rescuing this in our when when the library is just plainly
ignoring it?

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Luis Lavena
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