Re: creating temp files or temp folders in standard temp file locations in mdimporter on Mac OS X 10.8.3
Re: creating temp files or temp folders in standard temp file locations in mdimporter on Mac OS X 10.8.3
- Subject: Re: creating temp files or temp folders in standard temp file locations in mdimporter on Mac OS X 10.8.3
- From: Sean McBride <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:58:26 -0400
- Organization: Rogue Research Inc.
On Mon, 3 Jun 2013 01:17:38 -0700, Quincey Morris said:
>The sample code tries to create a subdirectory inside the directory
>pointed to by NSTemporaryDirectory(). If this code is running in the
>context of an app sandbox, then there should be no problem creating a
>subdirectory in its temp dir. If the code is running in (say) a
>background worker process, then it should have its own temp dir, and
>there should still be no problem.
>
>All of which makes me wonder if NSTemporaryDirectory() just isn't
>available in the worker process, for some non-apparent reason. In that
>case, isn't there a Unix-ey temp dir to use instead (/var/something or /
>usr/something)?
NSTemporaryDirectory() is an old path-based API. Perhaps the newer URL-based APIs (URLForDirectory:inDomain:appropriateForURL:create:error:) might return a more appropriate temp directory...
Cheers,
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Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com
Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada
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