On Jun 25, 2006, at 8:01 AM, Jon Dowland wrote:
At 1151095688 past the epoch, Jan Braun wrote:
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.
I agree. /tmp is there for a reason and there are ways to safely
create files there. I'd rather clean out files in /tmp than have to
find every _darcs on my hard drive and clean those out as well.
Additionally, some of us set TMP TEMP and TMPDIR to values that make
sense on our platform because we know our filesystem layout and
actually want temp files to reside in a certain spot. So respect the
environment variables as well.
Just my $.03
Michael
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