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Re: st: controlling tempfile names, avoiding conflict between concurrent Stata instances
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László Sándor <[email protected]>
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Re: st: controlling tempfile names, avoiding conflict between concurrent Stata instances
Date
Sun, 1 Sep 2013 23:25:23 -0400
FWIW, I cannot change STATATMP for my batches on the server, so I hope
the loop below can save me with tempfiles my own code opens. I am not
sure if built-in uses of temp files might still be prone to the error
of another Stata instance using a file with the same name already.
tempfile test
cap confirm new file `test'
while _rc {
di "test existed already"
tempfile test
cap confirm new file `test'
}
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 1:54 PM, László Sándor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I think I have a conflict of file use between multiple Stata instances
> on my server trying to write to the same tempfile name by coincidence.
> Is there a simple way to make sure I can avoid this?
>
> To be clear, I have very similar code that used tempfiles intensively,
> and my code crashed with an error of a "ST_ah000001.tmp not being able
> to be modified or erased (likely cause: read-only)."
>
> This is under Stata 12.1 for Windows.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Laszlo
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