From: Peter Zotov <whitequark@...>
Date: 2012-09-18T09:56:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.mktmpdir doesn't remove it at exit?

Roger Pack писал 18.09.2012 01:22:
>> 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.

Unixen don't allow removal of non-empty directories as well.

-- 
   WBR, Peter Zotov.