Is your original file in the local filesystem or does it start with a url like http: or ftp:
Barry On Mar 8, 2008, at 12:00 AM, Gideon Simpson wrote: > I have some code that wants to read in a previously binary dumped > and gzipped matrix. The first time I run this code, it opens the > file with PetscViewerBinaryOpen, loads the data into the matrix and > processes as expected. However, if, for some reason, I want to > execute it a second time, when it tries to open the file, it gets > stuck. Investigating a bit, it seems to be that the first time it > runs, when it gunzips the file, it leaves the file in /tmp. If that > file is still in this folder, it gets stuck. If I remove it from / > tmp, the code executes without a problem, as it did the first time. > > Obviously, I could avoid using zipped files. Is this a bug (or a > feature)? Is there an obvious way to clean up /tmp after the code > executes? > > -gideon >
