.tmp files in a long shell script

GRASS certainly seems to create a lot of .tmp files one directory above
the one I'm using! Are they of any use, or should I delete them (adding
a command like rm -r ../.tmp) at regular intervals?

J.Rossing

"Jane Rossing" (rossing@swlab.aben.cornell.edu) writes on 3 Oct 93:

GRASS certainly seems to create a lot of .tmp files one directory above
the one I'm using! Are they of any use, or should I delete them (adding
a command like rm -r ../.tmp) at regular intervals?

if noone is running grass, then they are probably safe to delete
(assuming that no background job is running).

If anyone identifies a problem with temporary files hanging around,
see if you can figure out which program put them there and then file a
bug report (using bug.report.sh).

This is may be indicative of sloppy programming. I'm sometimes guilty,
but after writing one program that used a *lot* of tmp space and
filling my quota, I've tried to clean up my act (and src code).

--Darrell

P.S. does anyone know where unlink() is defined?