In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Delacour) wrote:
> Can someone please tell me if there's any reason not to write files > in /private/tmp rather than in /tmp/501/TemporaryItems ? > > drwxrwxrwt 29 root wheel 986 18 Jan 21:49 tmp > drwxr-xr-x 13 jd wheel 442 18 Jan 21:30 TemporaryItems > > So far as jd and admin there's never been a problem, but would there > be a problem if I were a user with fewer privileges? /tmp/501/TemporaryItems/ is your personal temporary items folder. Witness: $ perl -MMac::Files -le ' print FindFolder(kOnSystemDisk, kTemporaryFolderType)' /private/tmp/502/TemporaryItems $ sudo -u maintenance perl -MMac::Files -le ' print FindFolder(kOnSystemDisk, kTemporaryFolderType, kCreateFolder)' /private/tmp/501/TemporaryItems $ sudo -u guestuser perl -MMac::Files -le ' print FindFolder(kOnSystemDisk, kTemporaryFolderType, kCreateFolder)' /private/tmp/503/TemporaryItems So when Mac apps use the standard Mac OS API to create temp files, that's the path they get, and if you want to restrict temp files to a particular user, then feel free to do the same. Of course, you don't necessarily need to use Mac::Files and FindFolder, you can probably create the path yourself, though I wouldn't recommend that personally. See man Mac::Files for details, or point your browser to: file:///Developer/Documentation/Carbon/Reference/Folder_Manager/index.html See especially "FindFolder" under Functions, and "Folder Type Constants" and "Disk and Domain Constants" under Constants. -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/
