On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:25:48 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> No, that you'd have a path which was storage for temp files, system-
>> wide.
> 
> Um, right. Same with Windows.

Yes.

>> In *nix, ISTR there's a call to "create a temporary file", no need to
>> track it by name because all the program needs is the file handle.
> 
> Um, no. If you want to close the file and reopen it later, because it's,
> say, a cache file, then you need to know the name.  How come people
> invariably think a "temp file" means you never close it, reopen it, or
> pass it to another program?  In any case, I'm not talking about temp
> files. I'm talking about cache files.  And since programs *don't* do
> this, a discussion of how it might be able to work without changing the
> file system doesn't help anyway.

It's a question of programming practice.  Kinda like passing laws that 
duplicate other laws because the older laws aren't enforced.

Jim

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