On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 1:17 PM, Manlio Perillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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).
Something like: > withTempFile :: String -> ((FilePath, Handle) -> IO b) -> IO b > withTempFile name action = do > tmpdir <- getTemporaryDirectory > bracket > (openTempFile tmpdir name) > (\(fp,h) -> hClose h >> removeFile fp) > action I don't know if this has the safety requirements you mean? -- Dougal Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.dougalstanton.net _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe