On Wednesday, 10 de August de 2011 16:02:11 David Faure wrote: > Similar to QTemporaryFile, I'm thinking of creating a QTemporaryDirectory > class, for these cases where apps need a temp dir (e.g. to extract a zip, or > write files before zipping them, or for unittests that need many files, > like those testing directory-copy-operations). > > Of course one could use QTemporaryFile to get a temp filename, let the > destructor delete it, and then create it as a directory, but AFAIK this is a > bad idea, it creates a time window for a symlink attack (e.g. the attacker > could be notified of the file creation+deletion using inotify). > > So, would a merge request for QTemporaryDirectory be a good idea?
I think so.
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