From: Roger Pack <lists@...>
Date: 2012-09-18T06:22:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.mktmpdir doesn't remove it at exit?

> Many methods in Ruby which deal with external resources
> (File.open/Socket.open anyone?) have both a block form (that cleans
> itself
> up automatically) and a non-block form that requires manual cleanup
> (e.g.
> close your file descriptors, although the GC will *eventually* do it for
> you if you can't be bothered to do that)
>
> This is no different.

It also closes file descriptors "at_exit" for you, which is what I 
expected here.

Really what I'd expect here is for it to remove the directory "if empty" 
at exit, but maybe that is too hard in windows, which disallows removing 
non-empty directories? A pity if that's why the inconsistency was 
introduced.

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