[Haskell-cafe] about openTempFile

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

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.

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