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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:25:48 +0000
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Subject: Re: A workaround for Unix-style temporary files
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> 
> > But we can remove if the program crashes too, why not? For example: when my 
> > program crashes I store the unsaved documents in a special file, so libc can 
> > remove temporals during a crash too.
> 
> A program which catches SIGSEGV can ineed do that, to some extent (there
> are bad crashes, like when the stack is scrogged, that would prevent even
> this from working).  However, Mark was suggesting a solution that should 
> be part of the library.  And a library function that hooks SIGSEGV 
> complicates its usage too much.

Normally programs that catch SIGSEGV finally does the traceback dump, trying 
to delete the files there won't complicate the stuff, but of course isn't as 
good as having an OS that does the work.

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