On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 01:29:59PM +0200, David Monniaux wrote: > Hi all, > > Many people around here complain that Gimp leaves enormous swap files when > crashing. It is especially a pain since they are in a "hidden" > subdirectory. > > Would it be possible to have Gimp unlink() the files after opening them? > I explain: if we use swap files as follow: open them at the beginning and > never close them until the end of execution of Gimp, then if we unlink() > them after opening them they will get erased when Gimp exits, whether it > exists gracefully or not. > > I don't know how swapping works in Gimp, so feel free to point me out the > obvious reason why it doesn't work. :-) > If I recall correctly, this has been suggested a few times and made it into released versions of gimp at least once, only to be removed later for reasons I do not recall. Seems like some sort of portability issues perhaps, but its been a long time. The easiest way to remember why it got removed is probabaly to put it back in though and see who yells ;-> Adrian
