Re: [Chicken-users] using the compiler at runtime

[John Cowan]

Tobia Conforto scripsit:

> Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason why you put the rm into  
> an exit handler, instead of removing the file right after loading it?

That's a Posix-only thing to do.  (Granted, "rm" isn't portable either,
but calling remove() would suffice here.)  On Windows, it's impossible to
remove an open file, and remove() would simply fail under MinGW.  Under
Cygwin, the behavior is funky: the Cygwin library hides the existence of
open files that have been removed, but to the Windows kernel they still
exist, and an attempt to create a new file of the same name will fail.

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