Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> auto-delete is one of the nice features of tempfile. Another feature >> which is entirely appropriate to this usage, though, though, is creation >> of a non-conflicting filename. > > Ok. In that use case, however, it is completely irrelevant whether the > tempfile module calls fsync. After it has generated the non-conflicting > filename, it's done. > If you're saying that it shouldn't call fsync automatically I'll agree to that. The message thread I was replying to seemed to say that tempfiles didn't need to support fsync because they will be useless after a system crash. I'm just refuting that by showing that it is useful to call fsync on tempfiles as one of the steps in preserving the data in another file. -Toshio -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20090312/9e4bcbe4/attachment.pgp>
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