[Rd] unlink() is not synchronized with existing connections

[Jens Oehlschlägel]

> # creating a file
> cat("sddfasdf", file="tempfile")
> showConnections()
     class description mode text isopen can read can write
> con <- file("tempfile", "r")
> readLines(con)
[1] "sddfasdf"
Warning message: 
incomplete final line in: readLines(con, n, ok) 
> showConnections()
  class      description mode text   isopen   can read can write
3 "tempfile" "file"      "r"  "text" "opened" "yes"    "no"     
> unlink("tempfile")
> showConnections()
  class      description mode text   isopen   can read can write
3 "tempfile" "file"      "r"  "text" "opened" "yes"    "no"     
> # now we have an opened (read) connection to a non-existing file left

BTW: this may be considered as a special case of a more general thing: 
undefined rights to modify/access connections owned by other parts of the software


Regards


Jens Oehlschlägel


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Windows NT 4.0 (build 1381) Service Pack 6

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