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From: James Tucker <jftucker@gmail.com>
To: rack-devel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Not cleaning up tempfiles for multipart?
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:49:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42B58BD5-579C-415E-A264-7DF262717B0E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f04d2211003080643v6564cbe8kfc63b1bf56ce74d0@mail.gmail.com>

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On 8 Mar 2010, at 14:43, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Hongli Lai <hongli@phusion.nl> wrote:
>> On Mar 8, 12:26 pm, Hongli Lai <hon...@phusion.nl> wrote:
>>> Charles's middleware looks simple enough. I approve.
>> 
>> Sorry. I mean Eric's. :)
>> 
>> Another thing that you might want to keep in mind is that users might
>> File.rename() a certain Tempfile, in which case you will not want to
>> unlink it. For example suppose one uploads a large file to the web
>> server, I think there are web apps out there that will simply rename()
>> the tempfile to the storage directory and therefore avoid an expensive
>> copy operation.
> 
> I don't think it should be specified behavior that a tempfile *ever*
> exists on disk. The mechanism of temporary storage for a large
> incoming post should be a black box. Consider systems that won't
> actually have a writable filesystem, like GAE; there, the "tempfile"
> data would be stored in memory or in BigTable.
> 
> Rack should not require that large multipart posts or anything else
> require a filesystem, nor guarantee that they'll be on any filesystem
> that exists.

It's for this reason that I'd prefer to see this handled correctly by servers +/ handlers in general.

Middleware may use what it likes, but it takes responsibility for cleanup of whatever it creates.


> 
> - Charlie


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-08 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-05 14:40 Not cleaning up tempfiles for multipart? Charles Oliver Nutter
2010-03-05 14:47 ` Charles Oliver Nutter
2010-03-05 14:48   ` Charles Oliver Nutter
2010-03-06 10:20   ` Hongli Lai
2010-03-07 14:25     ` Charles Oliver Nutter
2010-03-06  7:55 ` Eric Wong
2010-03-06 10:25   ` Hongli Lai
2010-03-07 14:34     ` Charles Oliver Nutter
2010-03-08  0:22       ` Eric Wong
2010-03-08  1:12         ` Eric Wong
2010-03-17 15:41           ` Charles Oliver Nutter
2010-03-18  9:54             ` Eric Wong
2014-01-06 22:45               ` Wojtek Kruszewski
2014-02-11 21:05                 ` Eric Wong
2014-03-27 21:40                   ` Lenny Marks
2010-03-07 23:53     ` Eric Wong
2010-03-08 11:26       ` Hongli Lai
2010-03-08 11:30         ` Hongli Lai
2010-03-08 14:33           ` Randy Fischer
2010-03-08 14:43           ` Charles Oliver Nutter
2010-03-08 14:49             ` James Tucker [this message]
2010-03-17  2:37           ` Eric Wong
2010-03-08 13:22         ` Charles Oliver Nutter
2010-03-08 14:42         ` James Tucker
2010-03-08 17:24           ` Hongli Lai
2010-03-09  7:43             ` Charles Oliver Nutter
2010-03-08 10:05     ` James Tucker
2010-03-07 14:27   ` Charles Oliver Nutter
2010-03-08  0:18     ` Eric Wong
2010-03-08 10:07       ` James Tucker

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