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Re: LYNX-DEV Improvement on /tmp code fix?


From: Klaus Weide
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Improvement on /tmp code fix?
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 14:26:21 -0500 (CDT)

On Sun, 13 Jul 1997, Jonathan Sergent wrote:

> My understanding is:
> 
>    Lynx never removes a temp file and creates a new one with the same
>    name unless tempname() tells it to.  I don't understand the VMS
>    removes scattered throughout but I know they don't matter if they're
>    preprocessed out of the code on UNIX.
> 
> If that holds hold then my patch works on machines with safe temp 
> spaces (which the patch also checks for).

It does not always hold in the current code.  See (again, in HTFWriter.c)
what can happen to the temp file whose name is stored in
anchor->FileCache.

   Klaus

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