On 2008 Sep 17, at 8:17, Manlio Perillo wrote:
The Python tempfile module, as an example, implements a wrapper around mkstemp function that does exactly this, and the code is portable; on Windows it uses O_TEMPORARY_FILE flag, on POSIX systems the file is unlink-ed as soon as it is created (but note that the code is not signal safe - well, many functions in the Python standard library are not signal safe).
There are reasons why GHC library does not implement this?
POSIX doesn't guaranteed that open-and-unlink works; HP-UX is a "POSIX" platform on which it doesn't. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH