Joel Rees wrote:
Except, of course, this is Unix, and we have i-nodes, and the system
knows how to hold onto a file until all links are gone, as I recall.
Ergo, just delete it once you know the viewer has it open, IIRC.
Which is fine, but if you use 'open' to fork off and run Acrobat in
parallel with your program, then at the moment system() returns you do
*not* know that it has safely grabbed hold of the file. You don't even
know that it has when you see Acrobat appear in the process table.
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