# Tempfile (Class)

In: | tempfile.rb
Parent: | SimpleDelegator

A class for managing temporary files. This library is written to be thread safe.

## Methods

close close! delete length new open open path size unlink

## Constants

MAX_TRY | = | 10

## Public Class methods

new(basename, tmpdir=Dir::tmpdir)

Creates a temporary file of mode 0600 in the temporary directory whose name is basename.pid.n and opens with mode "w+". A Tempfile object works just like a File object.

If tmpdir is omitted, the temporary directory is determined by Dir::tmpdir provided by ‘tmpdir.rb’. When $SAFE > 0 and the given tmpdir is tainted, it uses /tmp. (Note that ENV values are tainted by default)

[Source]

    # File tempfile.rb, line 24
      def initialize(basename, tmpdir=Dir::tmpdir)
        if $SAFE > 0 and tmpdir.tainted?
          tmpdir = '/tmp'
        end

        lock = nil
        n = failure = 0

        begin
          Thread.critical = true

          begin
            tmpname = sprintf('%s/%s%d.%d', tmpdir, basename, $$, n)
            lock = tmpname + '.lock'
            n += 1
          end while @@cleanlist.include?(tmpname) or
            File.exist?(lock) or File.exist?(tmpname)

          Dir.mkdir(lock)
        rescue
          failure += 1
          retry if failure < MAX_TRY
          raise "cannot generate tempfile `%s'" % tmpname
        ensure
          Thread.critical = false
        end

        @data = [tmpname]
        @clean_proc = Tempfile.callback(@data)
        ObjectSpace.define_finalizer(self, @clean_proc)

        @tmpfile = File.open(tmpname, File::RDWR|File::CREAT|File::EXCL, 0600)
        @tmpname = tmpname
        @@cleanlist << @tmpname
        @data[1] = @tmpfile
        @data[2] = @@cleanlist

        super(@tmpfile)

        # Now we have all the File/IO methods defined, you must not

        # carelessly put bare puts(), etc. after this.

        Dir.rmdir(lock)
      end

open(*args) {|tempfile| ...}

If no block is given, this is a synonym for new().

If a block is given, it will be passed tempfile as an argument, and the tempfile will automatically be closed when the block terminates. In this case, open() returns nil.

[Source]

    # File tempfile.rb, line 156
        def open(*args)
          tempfile = new(*args)

          if block_given?
            begin
              yield(tempfile)
            ensure
              tempfile.close
            end

            nil
          else
            tempfile
          end
        end

## Public Instance methods

open()

Opens or reopens the file with mode "r+".

[Source]

    # File tempfile.rb, line 70
      def open
        @tmpfile.close if @tmpfile
        @tmpfile = File.open(@tmpname, 'r+')
        @data[1] = @tmpfile
        __setobj__(@tmpfile)
      end

close(unlink_now=false)

Closes the file. If the optional flag is true, unlinks the file after closing.

If you don’t explicitly unlink the temporary file, the removal will be delayed until the object is finalized.

[Source]

    # File tempfile.rb, line 88
      def close(unlink_now=false)
        if unlink_now
          close!
        else
          _close
        end
      end

close!()

Closes and unlinks the file.

[Source]

    # File tempfile.rb, line 97
      def close!
        _close
        @clean_proc.call
        ObjectSpace.undefine_finalizer(self)
      end

unlink()

Unlinks the file. On UNIX-like systems, it is often a good idea to unlink a temporary file immediately after creating and opening it, because it leaves other programs zero chance to access the file.

[Source]

    # File tempfile.rb, line 107
      def unlink
        # keep this order for thread safeness

        File.unlink(@tmpname) if File.exist?(@tmpname)
        @@cleanlist.delete(@tmpname) if @@cleanlist
      end

delete()

Alias for unlink

path()

Returns the full path name of the temporary file.

[Source]

    # File tempfile.rb, line 115
      def path
        @tmpname
      end

size()

Returns the size of the temporary file. As a side effect, the IO buffer is flushed before determining the size.

[Source]

    # File tempfile.rb, line 121
      def size
        if @tmpfile
          @tmpfile.flush
          @tmpfile.stat.size
        else
          0
        end
      end

length()

Alias for size

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