On Saturday 07 June 2008 19.36.21 Gabor Szabo wrote: > I just got a failure report from David Golden as this line > did not work with "Permission denied" > > copy($0, "$0.tmp") > > He was running it on Windows (Strawberry Perl). > > I am sure I create temporary files in various test, so it might be the > right time to streamline them. > > So what is the recommended place for temporary files and directories > that I can expect to be writable? > > Should I just use File::Tempdir ?
Directory-Scratch is made just for that. I really didn't like the interface so I hacked through it with a baseball bat and wrote Directory-Scratch-Structured (the review (1 star) is one fun review to read (I laughed for quite while)) Nadim.