From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-02-06T05:09:31+09:00
Subject: Re: File.delete one-liner

On 05.02.2009 18:49, Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> 2009/2/4 Julian Leviston <julian@coretech.net.au>:
>>> File.delete(File.exists?(lockfile) ? lockfile : @lockfile)
>> [lockfile, @lockfile].any? {|f| File.delete(f) rescue false}
> 
> If #delete fails on lockfile for some reason other than ENOENT, this 
> code will try to delete @lockfile.

This is correct.  I thought that was intended.  Didn't you suggest 
exactly this in your previous posting (atomic deletion)?  Looking at the 
original question it is not clear in which cases @lockfile should be 
deleted - unless you take the code as spec.

Thanks for pointing this out!

Cheers

	robert