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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no 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 Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!a15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: vlc Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Atomic file creation Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 08:45:05 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <0s2thh.3cd.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: 87.221.73.92 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1262623505 3971 127.0.0.1 (4 Jan 2010 16:45:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 16:45:05 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a15g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=87.221.73.92; posting-account=ROuOHgoAAABopjDuvPBd02HgYVR-VCZk User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091215 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8595 Date: 2010-01-04T08:45:05-08:00 List-Id: On Jan 4, 4:52=A0pm, Jean-Pierre Rosen 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 :-)