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

[Sander V. <San...@Su...>]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> 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.
> 

Right - just that Benjamin's /tmp/scrollkeeper-tempfile.<login name>
pattern always matches just one file. 8-)

> Malcolm
> 

	Sander

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