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

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

On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:56:18PM +0100, Sander Vesik wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> 
> > > 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. :-)
> > 
> 
> Please don't do this - it will give bad results if you are logged in into
> an account more than once and the machines have different databases.

No it won't, because you still have to allow multiple files, so
scrollkeeper will still return a filename specific for that run. You
can't just have a single file (or even just a limited number of files)
or predicatable names because otherwise there is the same denial of
service situation as before.

Malcolm