Re: temporary files under win32

[LoÃc Grenià <loic.grenie@gmail.com>]

2012/10/19 Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:49:37AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
>> Dear PARI developers,
>>
>> I get report that PARI support for temporary files on win32 is not reliable.
>> In particular when running several instance of GP running factorisation.
>>
>> I would be glad if someone could review this code
>> (in src/language/es.c)
>>
>> To debug under gp, do
>> \gf2
>> factorint(2^251-1,14)
>
> So the first bug I found is that the directories are created in '.', not
> in the system tmp directory (assuming this exist on windows).

    There are some... c:\temp, c:\windows\temp are frequently present...

> The second is that there is a race condition of some sort.
> If you create 4 directories, each with a copy of gp.exe and start each
> of them in parallel, MPQS is much more reliable, so this suggest some race
> condition.

    Indeed, get_files *is* racy. I'll try to implement getpid() and some
  sort of getuid() (maybe constant, maybe not). I've no native win32
  compilers, so my tests will not be perfect.

         Thanks,

              LoÃc