Re: deleting content of /tmp
On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:46:08PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> 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
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> That's what, in python syntax, os.tmpfile() is for.
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> > and minimizes a vulnerability.
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> A rich-enough file protection and locking protocol is supposed to
> handle that for you.
I wonder how the python run-time package actually implements an os.tmpfile
on a *nix system --- maybe by creating a file and then unlinking it?
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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