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NSTemporaryDirectory() and security



Good afterevenmorning,

In all of my cocoa document-based applications, I've used NSTemporaryDirectory() as storage for render files, etc. This seems to be the suggested method...

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/ BPFileSystem/Articles/WhereToPutFiles.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/ TP40001411-109669

However, there is a security issue, in the eyes of some, that writing to /tmp is bad. So, they have it cordoned off on their systems. Another issue would be if a user was rendering content that they didn't want other users (such as those logged via SSH) to see.

What are the options/suggestions for tmp file writing that is secure but also follows Apple's guidelines? What are other folks doing?

thanks,

Jaime Magiera
Sensory Research Network
http://www.sensoryresearch.net




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