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On 7 Oct 2010, at 22:44, Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote:
Aren't there automation systems for this? Just like debian's 'apt-get update
upgrade' with a custom repository with your software? But then for
windows I presume?
I haven't seen any yet.
Am 07.10.2010 20:02, schrieb Jonathan:
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:01:44 +0200
Sven Barthpascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Btw: What are Tomoyo and Apparmour (I can imagine what the second one
is, but I don't know what functionality they provide)?
http://tomoyo.sourceforge.jp/
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 07.10.2010 20:02, schrieb Jonathan:
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:01:44 +0200
Sven Barthpascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Btw: What are Tomoyo and Apparmour (I can imagine what the second one
is, but I don't know what functionality they provide)?
Am 08.10.2010 10:03, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 07.10.2010 20:02, schrieb Jonathan:
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:01:44 +0200
Sven Barthpascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Btw: What are Tomoyo and Apparmour (I can imagine what the second one
is, but I
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 08.10.2010 10:03, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 07.10.2010 20:02, schrieb Jonathan:
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:01:44 +0200
Sven Barthpascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Btw: What are Tomoyo and Apparmour (I
Am 08.10.2010 11:43, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 08.10.2010 10:03, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
So when changing/improving GetTempFileName we could also try to make
it compatible to such applications by creating a directory in TEMP for
the temporary
On 08 Oct 2010, at 13:32, Sven Barth wrote:
Let me guess: UID-username is a libc function...
It has to be implemented via a library, because the translation can be
done in as many different ways as there are authentication systems (/
etc/passwd, NIS, kerberos, ActiveDirectory, ...).
On 8 October 2010 13:32, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Let me guess: UID-username is a libc function...
Problem is you can't always map a UID to a username under Unix. The
username is not always in the /etc/passwd file. You can have LDAP (I
think that's what it's called),
Am 08.10.2010 14:11, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
On 8 October 2010 13:32, Sven Barthpascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Let me guess: UID-username is a libc function...
Problem is you can't always map a UID to a username under Unix. The
username is not always in the /etc/passwd file. You can
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jonathan wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:41:03 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote:
I'm open for some more sophisticated algorithm which does some more checking.
Michael.
Honour one of the temp directory environment variables, I know of TMPDIR,
Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto:
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 06 Oct 2010, at 11:05, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 06 Oct 2010, at 09:41, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
This is always true on Unix, the only way to make sure is to have
the
On 6 October 2010 23:57, Jonathan winelauncher.jonat...@googlemail.com wrote:
Create a folder in the temp directory naming it after the user name. E.g
/tmp/myusername/
Ensure only the owner can read and write in the folder.
Create a folder in /tmp/myusername/ using your program name.
Then
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
On 6 October 2010 23:57, Jonathan winelauncher.jonat...@googlemail.com wrote:
Create a folder in the temp directory naming it after the user name. E.g
/tmp/myusername/
Ensure only the owner can read and write in the folder.
Create a folder in
On 7 October 2010 10:40, Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote:
Meanwhile I'm still waiting for the first non-fpc app to write it's config
files in that directory (using Kubuntu, BTW). All other apps I use still
happily write in ~/.program/
Well, then here it is In my
Am 06.10.2010 23:57, schrieb Jonathan:
On Wed, 06 Oct 2010 09:40:42 +0200
Sven Barthpascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Windows (or at least ReactOS) seems to use GetTickCount to generate a
random filename:
Do not you use random file names without a subdirectory because you can not use
On 7 October 2010 10:58, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, then here it is In my ~/.config/ I have the following
non-FPC projects config files
* enchant
* f-spot
* google-chrome
* indicators
* helix
* gnome-disk-utility
* gnome-session
* gnome-mplayer
* gtk-2.0
Am 07.10.2010 10:40, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
Aahhh.. Norms. Right. like all config files should go in ~/.config/, as
proposed 5 years ago, because ~/.program/ is not the norm (dumping a
successful 20-year old practise for no apparent good reason).
Meanwhile I'm still waiting for the first
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
So: Norms ? Thank you, but I'll pass on that and implement what I
perceive as
simple and correct :-)
If the applications would keep their read only files in 'c:\program files'
and write only into those directories that they should (e.g. user's appdata
Am 07.10.2010 13:43, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
So: Norms ? Thank you, but I'll pass on that and implement what I
perceive as
simple and correct :-)
If the applications would keep their read only files in 'c:\program
files' and write only into those
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 07.10.2010 13:43, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
So: Norms ? Thank you, but I'll pass on that and implement what I
perceive as
simple and correct :-)
If the applications would keep their read only files in
Am 07.10.2010 14:21, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 07.10.2010 13:43, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
So: Norms ? Thank you, but I'll pass on that and implement what I
perceive as
simple and correct :-)
If the
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 07.10.2010 14:21, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 07.10.2010 13:43, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
So: Norms ? Thank you, but I'll pass on that and implement what I
Am 07.10.2010 14:41, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
Well, in schools the administrator is a teacher (usually maths or so) who
gets the additional job of managing the schools' IT structure. And all our
clients are schools.
Schools are indeed a bit special... sometimes you have to be lucky if
On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:01:44 +0200
Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Btw: What are Tomoyo and Apparmour (I can imagine what the second one
is, but I don't know what functionality they provide)?
http://tomoyo.sourceforge.jp/
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AppArmor
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Yes, but if the administrator must update 20 PCs manually every 2 weeks,
he quickly complains that he has better things to do, so it must be done
when the 'ordinary' user uses the application.
Aren't there automation systems for this? Just like debian's 'apt-get
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Micha Nelissen wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
Yes, but if the administrator must update 20 PCs manually every 2 weeks,
he quickly complains that he has better things to do, so it must be done
when the 'ordinary' user uses the application.
Aren't there automation
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
I haven't seen any yet. The main problem is that the update isn't
'optional' or 'to be scheduled at X every night'. It must be done when
the server application says it is time to do so.
apt-proxy ... push to the proxy when it's time to update stuff ;)
Micha
Am 05.10.2010 17:41, schrieb Jonas Maebe:
On 05 Oct 2010, at 17:38, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
Hi, if I run this program from command line in Linux, I allways get the same result,
/tmp/TMP0.tmp. Shouldn't it return a different file name each
Am 05.10.2010 18:26, schrieb ik:
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 17:30, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com
mailto:pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 05.10.2010 17:20, schrieb Leonardo M. Ramé:
Hi, if I run this program from command line in Linux, I allways
get the same
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Sven Barth wrote:
Am 05.10.2010 17:41, schrieb Jonas Maebe:
On 05 Oct 2010, at 17:38, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
Hi, if I run this program from command line in Linux, I allways get the
same result, /tmp/TMP0.tmp.
On 06 Oct 2010, at 09:41, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
This is always true on Unix, the only way to make sure is to have
the kernel
create the temporary name and file for you. Unix - to my knowledge -
does not have a way to create and lock a file in one atomic
operation; There are
always 2
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 06 Oct 2010, at 09:41, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
This is always true on Unix, the only way to make sure is to have the
kernel
create the temporary name and file for you. Unix - to my knowledge - does
not have a way to create and lock a file in
On 06 Oct 2010, at 11:05, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 06 Oct 2010, at 09:41, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
This is always true on Unix, the only way to make sure is to have
the kernel
create the temporary name and file for you. Unix - to my knowledge
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 06 Oct 2010, at 11:05, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 06 Oct 2010, at 09:41, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
This is always true on Unix, the only way to make sure is to have the
kernel
create the temporary name
On 06 Oct 2010, at 11:59, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Jonas Maebe wrote:
Nobody else can steal the file once you have created it, because
they won't be the owner nor have the necessary permissions. That is
the main security risk and it is solved by this approach. The
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 09:41:03 +0200 (CEST)
Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote:
I'm open for some more sophisticated algorithm which does some more checking.
Michael.
Honour one of the temp directory environment variables, I know of TMPDIR, TEMP,
TMP. I think it would be best to
Hi, if I run this program from command line in Linux, I allways get the same
result, /tmp/TMP0.tmp. Shouldn't it return a different file name each
time it's executed?.
How can I get different file names?
program tempfilename;
uses
sysutils;
begin
writeln(GetTempFileName);
end.
Am 05.10.2010 17:20, schrieb Leonardo M. Ramé:
Hi, if I run this program from command line in Linux, I allways get the same result,
/tmp/TMP0.tmp. Shouldn't it return a different file name each time it's
executed?.
How can I get different file names?
program tempfilename;
uses
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
Hi, if I run this program from command line in Linux, I allways get the same result, /tmp/TMP0.tmp. Shouldn't it return a different file name each time it's executed?.
How can I get different file names?
By actually creating the file.
On 05 Oct 2010, at 17:38, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
Hi, if I run this program from command line in Linux, I allways get the same
result, /tmp/TMP0.tmp. Shouldn't it return a different file name each
time it's executed?.
How can I get
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 17:30, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.comwrote:
Am 05.10.2010 17:20, schrieb Leonardo M. Ramé:
Hi, if I run this program from command line in Linux, I allways get the
same result, /tmp/TMP0.tmp. Shouldn't it return a different file name
each time it's
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Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] GetTempFileName in Linux
To: FPC-Pascal users discussions fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org
Date: Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 2:26 PM
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 17:30, Sven Barth pascaldra...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am 05.10.2010 17:20, schrieb Leonardo M. Ramé:
Hi, if I run
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