Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] Porblem with temporary files creation

[Malcolm T. <ma...@co...>]

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 10:51:53AM +0200, Benjamin Thery wrote:
> Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> [...]
> 
> >Although option (2) seems clearly preferable to me, the backwards
> >compatibility issues means it is probably an 0.5 feature. This means we
> >may have to go with the "dozens of stupid temporary" files in the
> >0.3/0.4 timeframe unless somebody can come up with a better idea.
> >
> >Anybody have thoughts?
> >
> >Malcolm
> >
> >  
> >
> Option (2) seems the cleanest to me too, but I don't know if the guys at 
> Yelp will like it ;-)

It's not just Yelp (the change required in Yelp is pretty simple -- I've
already looked at that). The problem is all the applications we don't
know about that are relying on the current behaviour.

> As a temporary fix, isn't it possible to have only one temporary file by 
> user, suffixed by the login name?
> /tmp/scrollkeeper-tempfile.<login name>

That's not a bad idea. There may be some situation where more than one
file is required (I must admit to not having thought about why five was
chosen), but a per-user system using login name is something to work
with in any case. Kind of obvious, in retrospect. :-)

Thanks for the idea. I'll think some more about this and code something
up when I have some time (won't be for a few days).

Cheers,
Malcolm