http transactions create strange temp files (on MacOS X)

[Christian Ebert]

* Jens Alfke on Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 09:41:16 -0700
> On 11 Oct '07, at 8:23 AM, Christian Ebert wrote:
>> Very very weird.
> 
> Agreed. You can try running "sudo fs_usage -w" to catch the creation of 
> these files.

Yeah, that's what I wanted to do next.

I found out that
/usr/local/lib/python2.5/plat-mac/errors.rsrc
is written to the temporary file.

I then tried with Apple shipped Python2.3, and the temp file
wasn't there.

Hunch:
$ locate errors.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/plat-mac/errors.rsrc
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/plat-mac/errors.rsrc.df.rsrc
/usr/local/lib/python2.5/plat-mac/errors.rsrc

I copied errors.rsrc.df.rsrc to
/usr/local/lib/python2.5/plat-mac/
and voilà! /tmp stays clean.

Apparently something went not well with my own Python
installation. I don't know what exactly, and what the df thing
means. At least it /seems/ to work now.

Thanks for taking the time to look into this!

c
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