Dylan Paul Thurston writes:
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 01:40:30AM -0700, Dave Peticolas wrote:
> > > Probably the temporary files should be in /tmp or /usr/tmp and contain
> > > the process number.
> >
> > If we put them in /tmp, then we really need to use something like
> > mkstemp(char *template) to get a unique name. But I'm not sure we
> > should put them there. First, if there is an error moving them, it's
> > easier to find them if we use the same directory (after all, they
> > should still have good data). Also, I was hoping to use the 'rename'
> > system call to make things simple (and usually atomic), but rename
> > doesn't work across different filesystems.
>
> OK, good points. What happens in the case when the file is writeable
> but the directory is not? What if the names you want to use are
> already taken, and the files are not writeable? (Example case: the
> distribution of gnucash comes with sample files, and a user wants to
> be able to try gnucash on these files without copying them to another
> directory.)
>
> It might be good to keep files in the same directory as much as
> possible, picking another name if necessary. I think Emacs handles
> all these cases pretty well; it might be worth looking at how it does
> it. (But it might also be worth implementing _something_ first.)
I had the same idea! (about Emacs, I mean). I'll see if I can find out.
thanks,
dave
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