[Scrollkeeper-devel] Porblem with temporary files creation

[Benjamin T. <ben...@bu...>]

Some days ago, I reported the following bug for Scrollkeeper (see below).
I think this is a major problem if there is more than one user or more 
than one GNOME 2 installation on the same host.

I hope this could be fixed soon.

Thank you.

Benjamin.


BUG 614263
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Problem with temporary file names Scrollkeeper 0.3.9 :

After installation, main window of Yelp, GNOME2 help browser, showed 
*no* GNOME docs.

The problem I found was that :

-- Yelp executes scrollkeeper-get-content-list to build its DB.

-- scrollkeeper-get-content-list write the content in a temporary file

-- Temporary files can be :
    /tmp/scrollkeeper-tempfile.#,
    where # is a number between 0 and 4.

-- In /tmp, all the five possible temporary files already existed and 
were owned by another user.
    On the same system we have about 4 or 5 GNOME 2 installations running.
 
-- scrollkeeper-get-content-list couldn't write its file but didn't 
complain, because the other user owned all the temporary files.

-- Yelp parsed on of the file created by the other user which did not 
contained all the entries.

-- As a result, I can access only the docs installed by the other user.


I think the function get_next_free_temp_file_path() in cl/get-cl.c has a 
problem.

-- Either, it must create the temporary file with write permission for 
everyone,
-- Or, the procedure to select a filename as to be changed (may be by 
using a random file name or adding
the username or UID to the temporary filename)



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