Re: temporary files not deleted after exit

[John W. Eaton]

On 25-Aug-2010, Judd Storrs wrote:

| On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Muhali <address@hidden> wrote:
| 
|     in that case I would not use a temporary name. If none of these files are
|     temporary, what then is a 'temporary' file?
| 
| Files opened with mkstemp() and tmpfile(), but I don't see anyway to use those
| with save().

Should we have fsave and fload functions that accept file IDs instead of
names?

| I could have sworn I once came across a function that would add
| files to the list of files to be deleted on exit, but I can't find
| it now so I must be hallucinating?

Look at mark_for_deletion in file-io.cc.  But it is not exported to
the interpreter level.  Should we do that?

Maybe discussion about these questions would be more appropriate for
the maintainers list.

jwe