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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/clean-temp.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/clean-temp.h | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/clean-temp.h b/lib/clean-temp.h index 07c45ab..24aeca8 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, 2011-2013 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 +39,16 @@ 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. + + For the cleanup in the normal case, programs that use this module need to + call 'cleanup_temp_dir' for each successful return of 'create_temp_dir'. + The cleanup in the case of a fatal signal such as SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGHUP, + is done entirely automatically by the functions of this module. */ struct temp_dir { |