-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/24/07 22:36, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:33:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/24/07 22:19, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >>> Out of curiousity, why do you say that it is a bad design? >> Destroying something to save it? >> > It seems like it makes perfect sense (in the temporary file case, not in > the destroying a village case). If you know that the operating system > will keep the file data allocated and allow you use the file as normal > until you close it, then why not unlink it? It prevents collisions with > naming
That's what, in python syntax, os.tmpfile() is for. > and minimizes a vulnerability. A rich-enough file protection and locking protocol is supposed to handle that for you. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGBfCAS9HxQb37XmcRAkXpAKCp2Fp5MG5zuCLgbRAu7G+AjZZPZQCfUEdP Ug3f0XcVYNovbe0owh70ceg= =mnuF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
