[Bioperl-l] tempfile cleanup
Jason Stajich
jason at bioperl.org
Fri Oct 6 18:36:49 UTC 2006
I think the magic trickery in there for cleanup is that File::Temp
only cleans up tempfiles when Perl exits not when the Root::IO object
goes out of scope -- so this can be a problem for people on CGI
scripts that stay resident in memory and don't ever have tempfiles
cleaned up. The managing the list aspect allows us to call _cleanup
periodically (perhaps before the start of every Blast run) to insure
that tempfiles are removed. perhaps newer File::Temp versions can
solve this better now but I believe that was the behavior we were
trying to deal with with managing the list of to-be-deleted files by
the Root::IO object.
This is some hackery that also had to do with not expecting
File::Temp to be installed I believe.
-jason
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