[GRASS-user] Why Does Re-projection Increase Disk Space Used? [UPDATE]

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Sat Mar 17 07:12:02 EDT 2012


On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> r.proj calls remove() on the temporary file immediately after opening
> it. On Unix, that removes the directory entry, and will cause the file
> itself to be deleted as soon as r.proj terminates. On Windows, the
> remove() call will fail (you can't delete an open file on Windows),
> and the file will be left behind.

Could|Will it be cleaned up when the Windows user leaves and reenters
the session? Or could a list of dead tmp files be generated to handle
this issue and savely remove them at next start up?

Markus


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