At 1151095688 past the epoch, Jan Braun wrote: > Zachary P. Landau schrob: > > How would having it in /tmp be a problem, as long as > > your permissions are sane?> > The obvious way to get this wrong is overwriting/changing > the file in /tmp if it exists. <snip> > Basically, /tmp is a bad idea, and since darcs can safely > write to _darcs, it should do so.
/tmp (or $TMPDIR) is a fine idea, as long as you protect against symlink attacks using an atomic method such as mkstemp(3). I certainly much prefer it to each application keep it's temp files in it's own space and the clutter which can result. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/
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