method

unlink

v1_9_1_378 - Show latest stable - Class: Tempfile

unlink()

public

Unlinks the file. On UNIX-like systems, it is often a good idea to unlink a temporary file immediately after creating and opening it, because it leaves other programs zero chance to access the file.

# File lib/tempfile.rb, line 136
  def unlink
    # keep this order for thread safeness
    begin
      if File.exist?(@tmpname)
        closed? or close
        File.unlink(@tmpname)
      end
      @@cleanlist.delete(@tmpname)
      @data = @tmpname = nil
      ObjectSpace.undefine_finalizer(self)
    rescue Errno::EACCES
      # may not be able to unlink on Windows; just ignore
    end
  end

unlink

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