From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,17f674692867d416 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!weretis.net!feeder2.news.weretis.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Atomic file creation Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:15:49 +0100 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Message-ID: <87fx6khpyy.fsf@hugsarin.sparre-andersen.dk> References: <0s2thh.3cd.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 94.191.253.128.bredband.3.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1262682953 27901 94.191.253.128 (5 Jan 2010 09:15:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:15:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:2H2EOHN87ZpNA/XEfO4VOQHrSO0= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8608 Date: 2010-01-05T10:15:49+01:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > Maybe because temporary files have no names ;-) Exactly. On POSIX systems it seems like they have to have a name. At least at the time when you create them. It would be so easy to let POSIX.IO.Open_Or_Create create an unnamed inode, when a program passes an empty string as a path name. As it is now, you have to remember to call POSIX.Files.Unlink just after[1] POSIX.IO.Open_Or_Create, when you want a temporary file. Greetings, Jacob [1] No need to wait until you are finished using the file. -- "... while the C compiler will happily generate code for almost anything produced by leaning on the keyboard."