temporary files

[François Perrad]

2011/7/18 Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com>:
> I've talked to a few people recently who wanted temporary file
> functionality in Parrot. I've wanted it too myself, and it would be a
> big help for things like testing, etc. I've been looking at the
> details about how to implement temporary files, and the list of
> options is not pretty.
>
> Right now, my tentative plan is to expose something like tmpnam()
> through a method on the OS dynpmc. This would give us unique file
> names for temporary use, but the files wouldn't be automatically
> deleted on close like they would with something like tmpfile().
>
> Before I start putting together any code, does anybody have any
> opinions or ideas about temporary files? It's  not going to be a huge
> amount of work, but I want to make sure we do what people need. Please
> let me know, I'll probably work on this next week if possible.
>

a StringHandle PMC lives in memory and acts as file.

François


> Thanks,
>
> --Andrew Whitworth
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