On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Fulko Hew <fulko....@gmail.com> wrote:

> So I made a simple 'hello world' as a test, that does a sleep to allow
> me to control C it. and If I do... stuff is left behind.  What am I doing
> wrong?
>

Nothing, that is expected behaviour.


> I built it with:    pp --clean -o hello hello.pl
>
> If I control-C it, I get stuff,
>

See above, the clean up handler is NOT "control-C save".


> if I let it terminate, I'm still left with the empty /tmp/par-xxx directory
>

Behaves as expected - the top -level temp directory is never cleaned
automatically.


>  (but eventually I'll get many different par-nnn directories!
>

No. There is only one /tmp/par-xxx directory per user.

Cheers, Roderich

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