On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Warren Young <wyml at etr-usa.com> wrote:
> On POSIX systems, you can securely create a temp file that only your user > can see via the mkstemp(3) C library call. SQLite will happily open the > resulting 0-byte file, allowing you to create your schema inside it. Then > when the file is set up, you can move it into the desired location and > change its file modes so that the other processes can open it. > > There must be an equivalent of mkstemp() on Windows, doubtless taking 3 > times as many parameters and with a function name 4 times as long. :) > sqlite exposes the functionality of fetching a temp file name using its mechanism, but i don't recall at the moment how it's done. A quick google isn't revealing it but i recall using it but finding out that it doesn't work with the :memory: VFS. -- ----- stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal "Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do." -- Bigby Wolf
