Re: Atomic file creation

[Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr>]

vlc a �crit :
> On Jan 4, 4:52 pm, Jean-Pierre Rosen <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:
>> Maybe because temporary files have no names ;-)
>>
>> Kidding appart, in the old time when people still knew how to write
>> operating systems, the notion of temporary file was supported by the OS,
>> and those files had really no name (as opposed to a junk name in /var/tmp).
> 
> Well, they have names, are stored in in /tmp/ and still exist after
> the call of Ada.Text_IO.Close in line 5. I actually checked this :-)

I presume you are using some elementary OS like Unix, that fakes
temporary files short of having true ones... But the implementation is
free to behave as if they were true temporary files. This protects your
portability (to VMS for example, sigh of nostalgia...)
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