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| author | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2011-04-27 23:28:48 +0200 |
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| committer | Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> | 2011-04-27 23:29:32 +0200 |
| commit | 5ea8bedd0c6a7a8f29dcff301d126b58cc123ea8 (patch) | |
| tree | d1e9b5c214e54e004b806bb24ac416ecbee83e23 /lib/clean-temp.h | |
| parent | 825499de077435754651ff49b3f3dba576a2ebc6 (diff) | |
| download | gnulib-5ea8bedd0c6a7a8f29dcff301d126b58cc123ea8.tar.gz | |
clean-temp: Clarify what it does.
* lib/clean-temp.h: Add more comments.
* doc/posix-functions/mkstemp.texi: Tweak reference to 'clean-temp'
module.
* doc/glibc-functions/mkostemp.texi: Mention 'clean-temp' here too.
* doc/glibc-functions/mkstemps.texi: Likewise.
* doc/glibc-functions/mkostemps.texi: Likewise.
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/clean-temp.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/clean-temp.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/clean-temp.h b/lib/clean-temp.h index 07c45ab22d..cac0702065 100644 --- a/lib/clean-temp.h +++ b/lib/clean-temp.h @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ /* Temporary directories and temporary files with automatic cleanup. - Copyright (C) 2006, 2009-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + Copyright (C) 2006, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, 2006. This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify @@ -39,7 +39,11 @@ extern "C" { This module provides support for temporary directories and temporary files inside these temporary directories. Temporary files without temporary - directories are not supported here. */ + directories are not supported here. The temporary directories and files + are automatically cleaned up (at the latest) when the program exits or + dies from a fatal signal such as SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGHUP, but not if it + dies from a fatal signal such as SIGQUIT, SIGKILL, or SIGABRT, SIGSEGV, + SIGBUS, SIGILL, SIGFPE, */ struct temp_dir { |