Re: Create-Delete tmp Files

[John J Cupak Jr <John_J_Cupak@res.raytheon.com>]

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Achim,

If you create a file without specifying the name, Ada is supposed to create
a temporary
file which is "automagically" deleted on close. You shouldn't need the
Delete call.

Hope this helps.
John


Achim Gerhard wrote:

> Hi all,
> is this legal Ada code?
> loop
> Text_IO.Create ( File => the_file, Mode => Text_IO.OUT_File );
> Text_IO.Reset ( File => the_file, Mode => Text_IO.IN_File );
> Text_IO.Delete ( File => the_file );
> end loop;
> The background is:
> in an application I use a temporary file. First i create a (noname) file
> and write some stuff into that file. After that, I want to read that
> stuff. So, I'll open that file as In_File and read from the beginning
> (reset...).
> Finally I throw away that file (delete).
> The main things Create/Reset/Delete are written in the code fragment
> above.
> I don't see anything illegal in this code, but the Ada runtime seems to
> accumulate memory (for file handles?) until ... it throws in the towel.
> Any comments?
> Hope this will not lead into a discussion 'how2use tmp files' :-)
> Regards,
> Achim
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