Re: Temporary files in GraphicsMagick

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

> At 02:25 PM 3/23/2003 -0600, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> >I am planning to implement a temporary file management subsystem in
> >GraphicsMagick similar to what I described on the gm-core list
> >yesterday.
>
>          Excellent.
>
>          I've had to deal with the IM/GM temp file problem when using it
> for commercial software development.  It will be nice to see it handled in
> a consistant/reliable way.

Most definitely.

> >Rather than requiring that code thoughout GraphicsMagick manage its
> >own temporary files, temporary file access will be via a temporary
> >file allocation subsystem which keeps track of the temporary files
> >which have been allocated, and assures that they are all removed if
> >GraphicsMagick is still capable of making an orderly exit (a "kill -9"
> >or any other uncatchable signal/exception can still leak files).
>
>          Are you going to put in standard SIG handlers, so that you can
> dispose of them it we do get a signal?

Yes.  Cristy had already added a signal handler to cache.c (an odd
place to put it), but I very much doubt that it actually works.

Bob
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