On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:43 AM, William Dunlap via R-devel <r-devel@r-project.org> wrote: > I was looking at the CRAN package 'bfork-0.1.2', which exposes the Unix > fork() and waitpid() calls at the R code level, and noticed that the help > file example for bfork::fork removes R's temporary directory, the value of > tempdir(). I think it happens because the forked process shares the value > of tempdir() with the parent process and removes it when it exits.
This has come up a few times: - https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-February/073748.html - https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2017-April/074149.html You may want to read up on the latter discussion. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
