• Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= (5/5) Jun 22 2020 Has anybody written a procedure for creating a temporary file in
• Stanislav Blinov (6/11) Jun 22 2020 tempDir just returns a path (i.e. "/tmp" or whatever it is on
• Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= (2/8) Jun 28 2020 Thanks.
• Jonathan M Davis (6/11) Jun 22 2020 I created a PR for one a while back that resulted in a surprisingly larg...

Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:

Has anybody written a procedure for creating a temporary file in 
a race-free manner?

And why has such a procedure not already been added to std.file 
when std.file.tempDir has?

See: https://dlang.org/library/std/file/temp_dir.html

Stanislav Blinov <stanislav.blinov gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 22 June 2020 at 21:46:57 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:
 Has anybody written a procedure for creating a temporary file 
 in a race-free manner?

 And why has such a procedure not already been added to std.file 
 when std.file.tempDir has?

 See: https://dlang.org/library/std/file/temp_dir.html

tempDir just returns a path (i.e. "/tmp" or whatever it is on 
Windows, etc.), it doesn't create anything.

Given the synopsis of std.file, a procedure for *creating* a file 
doesn't belong there, as it would only be half of an operation.

There is a https://dlang.org/library/std/stdio/file.tmpfile.html

Per =?UTF-8?B?Tm9yZGzDtnc=?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 22 June 2020 at 23:53:41 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote:
 tempDir just returns a path (i.e. "/tmp" or whatever it is on 
 Windows, etc.), it doesn't create anything.

 Given the synopsis of std.file, a procedure for *creating* a 
 file doesn't belong there, as it would only be half of an 
 operation.

 There is a https://dlang.org/library/std/stdio/file.tmpfile.html

Thanks.

Jonathan M Davis <newsgroup.d jmdavisprog.com> writes:

On Monday, June 22, 2020 3:46:57 PM MDT Per Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-learn 
wrote:
 Has anybody written a procedure for creating a temporary file in
 a race-free manner?

 And why has such a procedure not already been added to std.file
 when std.file.tempDir has?

 See: https://dlang.org/library/std/file/temp_dir.html

I created a PR for one a while back that resulted in a surprisingly large
amount of arguing. IIRC, there were some tweaks I still needed to make to
get it merged, but I keep forgetting to get back to it.

- Jonathan M Davis