On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:01:39PM +1000, CaT wrote: > > All in all I think you're making a mountain out of flat grass-plains > here. There is nothing inherently faulty, false or wrong in what the > zebra do there. For one, it makes sure that it is truly temporary. If > the app exits in some bizare way then no harm done. > Good point. If the program creates huge temporary files and then promptly crashes, how do you get the space back? You'd have to delete the file. By the program unlinking it immediately after creation, it ensures that you get the disk space back no matter what.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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