Michael Somos on Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:04:18 -0400 |
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MPQS not cleaning up files |
Pari users, For several months I had been puzzled by strange files which appeared in my "/tmp" directory on rare occasions and I had not even known which program was responsible. Here is an example : -rw------- 1 somos somos 7224 Jul 21 15:04 FNEW.614.15591 -rw------- 1 somos somos 220962 Jul 21 15:04 FREL.614.15591 -rw------- 1 somos somos 8055 Jul 21 15:04 LPNEW.614.15591 -rw------- 1 somos somos 192510 Jul 21 15:04 LPREL.614.15591 After a simple google search (don't know why I didn't try that right away) I discovered that these are from 'gp' in the 'mpqs.c' module. Moreover, this is totally undocumented. I had no idea that 'gp' was using these temp files. Probably, they appear when I interrupted a long factorization. Shalom, Michael