From: Robert Poor <rdpoor@...>
Date: 2010-05-14T03:08:25+09:00
Subject: Tempfile broken in Ruby 1.9.1?

I've been using Tempfile to create ~ 6 files of plot data.  However,
all but the last two files were unlinked as the new ones were created,
so at the end, I only had two files, not six.  I tried several
combinations - closing the file and re-opening in "r+" mode, NOT
closing the file -- nothing made a difference.

I'm pretty sure the Tempfile contract is that the files are to stick
around until the process exits, but my Ruby process was no exiting.

I saw ruby-core discussions about a possible Tempfile bug in 1.9.1,
but that appeared to only apply when calling unlink().

So: Is this a known problem?

* If so, I can work around it.
* If not, I can create a minimal test case to demonstrate the problem.
 (Would that be useful?)

Let me know...

- rdp

P.S.:

bash-3.2$ ruby --version
ruby 1.9.1p376 (2009-12-07 revision 26041) [powerpc-darwin9.8.0]
bash-3.2$ sw_vers
ProductName:	Mac OS X
ProductVersion:	10.5.8
BuildVersion:	9L30