Re: [webmin-devel] Temporary files

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

The best solution is to use Webmin's tempname function, which will
return a filename under /tmp/.webmin suitable for use as a temporary
directory. Your code would look something like :

$tempdir = &tempname();
mkdir($tempdir, 0700);
$tempfile = "$tempdir/whatever";
...
system("rm -rf ".quotemeta($tempdir));

The only important thing to remember is to remove the temporary
directory before your script exits, as the rm -rf command above does.
Otherwise, you run the risk of filling up the filesystem with data that
is no longer needed ..

 - Jamie

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 08:14, Sandro Dentella wrote:
> I need to use temporary files. Where should I put them?
> I'm writing an interface to manage dar archives from backup. People look in
> a database find the precious file and click on it. File must be extracted
> from the archive and served. Where should I extract it. 
> 
> Of course it would work, creating a temp dir *inside*
> /usr/share/webmin/my_module.... but that would be against any Filesystem
> Hyerarchy Standard.
> 
> Otherwise I should create a wrapper cgi that picks file that I extract under
> /tmp/ os /var/tmp, is there any other, possibly smarter solution?
> 
> 
> TYA
> sandro
> *:-)
> 
>