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Re: st: controlling tempfile names, avoiding conflict between concurrent Stata instances
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Austin Nichols <[email protected]>
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"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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Re: st: controlling tempfile names, avoiding conflict between concurrent Stata instances
Date
Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:31:57 -0400
László Sándor <[email protected]>:
Can you create a new folder in your temp directory for each new
instance of Stata, then change the temp directory to that (temporary)
folder?
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 11:25 PM, László Sándor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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