Hi.
After reading the chapter about IO in the "Real Word Haskell" book, I
have noted that there is no support for opening a temporary file that
will be automatically removed at program termination.
The Python tempfile module, as an example, implements a wrapper around
mkstemp function that does exactly this, and the code is portable; on
Windows it uses O_TEMPORARY_FILE flag, on POSIX systems the file is
unlink-ed as soon as it is created (but note that the code is not signal
safe - well, many functions in the Python standard library are not
signal safe).
There are reasons why GHC library does not implement this?
The Python version also set the FD_CLOEXEC, O_NOINHERIT and O_NOFOLLOW
flags (where available).
The GHC version, instead, set the O_NOCTTY flag.
Manlio Perillo
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