From: Matt Maycock <ummaycoc@...>
Date: 2004-10-09T04:23:17+09:00
Subject: TempFile

[ummaycoc@localhost ummaycoc]$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-06-21) [i686-linux]

I have an issue with tempfile.  I'm going through a loop which creates
two temp files, writes data, uses them to generate graphs (wonderful
gnuplot), and then destroys them.  Sometime after a few
iterations(sometimes 4, sometimes 100, sometimes not at all [once]), I
get to a point where I need to use the contents of the tempfile, and
the file is not there!  I've done nothing to erase the file.  It's
sorta nondeterministic.  If I hit `up' in bash and rexecute my ruby
-ne line, I get the same problem with the same iteration at the same
point in my code.  If I `change' any line in a file involved with the
process (my gnuplot wrapper, some random file that gets included) - it
can change where in the code and what iteration - even if the change
is equiv to `touch #{file}`

I can post code if anyone wants to wade through my mess, but I don't
think it's a `me' issue (ie not my fault -- at least I hope :-)

Any similar experiences / advice?

~Me!

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There's no word in the English language for what you do to a dead
thing to make it stop chasing you.