I've talked to a few people recently who wanted temporary file functionality in Parrot. I've wanted it too myself, and it would be a big help for things like testing, etc. I've been looking at the details about how to implement temporary files, and the list of options is not pretty.
Right now, my tentative plan is to expose something like tmpnam() through a method on the OS dynpmc. This would give us unique file names for temporary use, but the files wouldn't be automatically deleted on close like they would with something like tmpfile(). Before I start putting together any code, does anybody have any opinions or ideas about temporary files? It's not going to be a huge amount of work, but I want to make sure we do what people need. Please let me know, I'll probably work on this next week if possible. Thanks, --Andrew Whitworth _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
