Larry, Javier et al.
Perhaps this is a good use for an ON FIRST CONNECT applied to the database.

--- Javier Valencia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Larry:
> This would explain some problem my users have been having when someone else
> logged out early. Normally they all log in and log out at roughly the same
> time so it has not been a huge issue yet. I could put code on the logout
> routine to check whether there are other user logged in and if yes it would
> not delete the *$$$ files, in other words the last user to log out would
> delete all the temporary files...
> Javier,
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lawrence Lustig
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 9:16 AM
> To: RBG7-L Mailing List
> Subject: [RBG7-L] - Cloberring other people's $$$ files.
> 
> Although I set the scratch directory to the user's temp directory, I still
> accumulate a lot of $$$ files in the startup directory in multi-user
> situations.  To protect against this, I have always included an ERASE *.$$$
> in
> command files (since R:Base never erases the open files from the current
> session).
> 
> Recently (with 7.1), I've noticed a couple of occurences in which I've been
> able to clobber _another user's_ R:Base session by erasing all the $$$ files
> in
> the startup directory.  In other words, files which R:Base used to not erase
> are now eraseable from a different R:Base session.
> 
> Has anyone else noticed a similar change?  How do people deal with the
> danger
> of clobbering another session by erasing a temp file?
> --
> Larry
> 
> 


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