Re: [creduce-dev] Lots of temp files left behind in TMPDIR

[Kees Bakker]

On 10-07-13 16:06, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:

10.07.2013, 17:55, "Kees Bakker" <kees.bak...@altium.nl>:

Hi,

After running creduce there are lots of temp files in TMPDIR (i.e. on Linux
that is probably in /tmp.) I guess this is because of the
      kill ('TERM', -$pid);
in the creduce Perl script.

Shouldn't we try to kill the compiler in a more friendly way first? Perhaps
with a TERM signal or something. That being said, I'm sure we need to
have a fallback procedure and really do a TERM if the compiler doesn't
want to be killed by TERM.

Meanwhile I decided to create a fresh temporary directory before running
creduce and cleanup that directory after creduce is done. Something like this:

     export TMPDIR=$(mktemp -d /tmp/mytempdir-XXXXXX)
     creduce ....
     [ -d "$TMPDIR" ] && rm -fr "$TMPDIR"

--
Kees

rm -rf /tmp/creduce-*

No this is not the problem. The /tmp/creduce-* directories are cleaned up
nicely. I'm talking about temp files created by the compilers that are run
from the script. Compilers (usually some control program) create temporary
files, such as assembly and object files. Most compilers I know use TMPDIR
for that.

I get the impression that the creduce sometimes kills a compiler before it
is finished. In that case its temp files are left behind. Again, these are not
the temp files in /tmp/creduce-*.
--
Kees