Re: [wdiff-bugs] [bug #36546] error executing diff results in undeleted temporary files

[Nelson H. F. Beebe]

>> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36546

A common approach in Unix software to ensure deletion of temporary
files in the event of premature job termination is to issue an
unlink() call immediately after a successful open.  There is then no
need for special atexit() processing to cleanup, except on some
non-Unix systems with filesystems that do not support unlink().

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