[GRASS-dev] Re: [bug #4450] (grass) g.remove vect: empty dirs in the $MAPSET/.tmp/$HOSTNAME left

[Maciek Sieczka]

On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 19:27:55 +0200
Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 07:12:10PM +0200, Maciek Sieczka wrote:
> > On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:04:52 +0200 (CEST)
> > Markus Neteler via RT <grass-bugs at intevation.de> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 01:32:24PM +0200, Maciek Sieczka via RT
> > > wrote:
> > > > I have built current Grass 6.1 CVS on Ubuntu Breezy with
> > > > http://mpa.itc.it/markus/tmp/clean_temp2.c apllied.
> > 
> > > > I'd prefer each such empty dir be removed right after 'g.remove
> > > > vect'is done, but maybe this is not so critical.
> > 
> > > This is an issue of the program creating the vector map in
> > > question. Which one did you use? A script, r.* or v.*?
> > 
> > It is 'g.remove vect' that leaves empty temp dirs in the .tmp.
> 
> In a sense yes: 'g.remove vect' doesn't remove the empty temp dirs 
> in the LOCATION/MAPSET/.tmp/
> 
> But that's not even the idea of g.remove.
> 
> > As my bug report reads:
> > 
> > >For each vector file it removes, g.remove leaves 1 empty, redundant
> > >directory in the $MAPSET/.tmp/$HOSTNAME.
> > 
> > To reproduce:
> > 
> > 1. Create a vector file
> 
> My question was: which command did you use to create a vector file?
> That command should not leave files in .tmp/. There we have to
> search for the problem IMHO.

And I'm telling you that command that created the temp dir, is 'g.remove
vect'. And that it is 'g.remove vect' that is supposed to remove a 
temporary dir, which it created.

Or did I missunderstood?
 
> > 2. Empty your $MAPSET/.tmp/$HOSTNAME entirely.
> > 3. g.remove that vector.

> No - g.remove removes a vector map and doesn't care for tmp files.

But it should remove temp dirs which it created. Or not?

> > 4. See an orphaned empty dir left over.

Maciek

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