Re: fork & END

[xdg]

Are you on Win32? File::Temp claims that it doesn't unlink things in child processes, but if you're on Win32, you're only getting a pseudo-fork (see perlfork).

In any case, one approach is just to tell File::Temp not to unlink things automatically (with UNLINK => 0) and do your own cleanup. It's hard to be more specific with suggestions without knowing how you're using File::Temp.

[tlm]

Thanks.

Are you on Win32? File::Temp claims that it doesn't unlink things in child processes...

I'm having a hard time locating this in the docs. Grepping "child" got me nothing. What should I search for? (FWIW, I'm using version 5.8.6 of Perl, and version 0.14 of File::Temp.)

My OS is Linux.

The problem I'm having results from the CLEANUP option of File::Temp::tempdir, which I'm setting to 1.

I guess I was wondering if there was a standard workaround for this kind of situation.

[xdg]

I think you may want to upgrade. See the ChangeLog for File::Temp. 0.15 improved forking support. If you look at the CPAN docs, there's a brief comment in a section at the very end called "forking".

In writing File::pushd, I didn't set CLEANUP and used File::Path to remove the directory precisely when I wanted to (in my case, earlier than END). You could do that in your parent process after you reap all the children. But I'd try your script with a newer version of File::Temp and see if that resolves things for you.