From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-05-08T03:31:50+09:00
Subject: PStore and tempfiles - bug?

Hi all,

Ruby 1.6.8 and 1.8.0p2
Solaris 9

When I call PStore.new multiple times, in some cases there are temp
files left over on my filesystem.

# Begin code sample - seems to work ok.
require "pstore"

store = PStore.new("temp.store")

store.transaction{
   store["foo"] = "Hello World!"
}   

store = PStore.new("temp.store")

store.transaction{
   p store["foo"] # -> "Hello World!"
}
# End code sample

Using the above code, I end up with "temp.store" and "temp.store~" on my
filesystem.  I tried rescuing the second call to PStore.new as well just
in case, but I didn't catch any Exceptions.

So, really I have three questions: Why is it creating a tempfile? 
Assuming it's supposed to create a tempfile, why isn't it removed when
the program is complete?  Lastly, are there any potential problems
associated with the tempfile or can I safely ignore this issue?

Regards,

Dan

-- 
p
["010100101010111011001110001011100000010010000010011101101111011000101110000101101010011001001110000001000100101010101110010001101001111000000100000100101000011011000110110101101010011001001110"].pack("b*")