Re: Tempfile strangeness

From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-05-06 00:28:59 UTC
List: ruby-core #2850
Hi,

In message "Tempfile strangeness"
    on 04/05/06, Florian Frank <flori@nixe.ping.de> writes:

|this throws an exception Errno::EACCESS under Windows
|
|ruby -r tempfile -e 'Tempfile.new("foo").unlink'
|
|but works under Unixen. I think the behaviour ought to be consistent on
|both. Closing the tempfile before unlinking it, seems to help (see
|patch). What do you think?

How about ignoring EACCESS?  The tempfile will be removed anyway,
allowing almost portable behavior.

							matz.

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