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From: Randy Fischer <randy.fischer@gmail.com>
To: rack-devel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Not cleaning up tempfiles for multipart?
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 09:33:02 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c3a958d91003080633l12b4d12eo2a6cfb29fae58a8a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80d93359-c1c2-4589-9db9-4ff53cf4f95b@b7g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Hongli Lai <hongli@phusion.nl> wrote:

> 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.

Small nit here: if tempfile's close is unlinking the file, it doesn't matter if
something else has linked to it.   It's the filesystem's responsibility, after
all, to garbage collect unlinked files.

-Randy Fischer

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-08 14:33 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 [this message]
2010-03-08 14:43           ` Charles Oliver Nutter
2010-03-08 14:49             ` James Tucker
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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