It makes sense to me; you're interrupting a running program before it has a chance to finish. If you want to perform the kind of cleanup that your program doesn't get to (thanks to the interruption), install a signal handler for SIGINT. Like graff suggests, you can install a signal handler. Here's an easier approach though:

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Temp 'tempfile';
$SIG{INT} = sub { exit };


for (0 .. 50)
{
  my $tmp = File::Temp->new('DIR' => '/tmp', 'UNLINK' => 1);
  sleep(1);
}

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With that change, the program will exit normally on SIGINT, rather than suffering an immediate exit. END and DESTROY code will run, which will clean up the temporary files.

In reply to Re: File::Temp.. What am I missing? by chromatic
in thread File::Temp.. What am I missing? by devnul

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