Re: detect previous installation
Re: detect previous installation
- Subject: Re: detect previous installation
- From: Michael Watson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:38:11 -0400
On 20 Jul, 2007, at 15:48, Stéphane Sudre wrote:
- or you could save it into the Internet Config data base
Is this really a good idea? Doesn't sound like the proper sort of
data to put here.
- if your program runs as root, you have plenty of locations to
hide it.
This is /definitely/ going down the Road to Bad Ideas. Firstly, your
program probably shouldn't be running as root. (DEFINITELY not if
it's a GUI app.) Secondly, you may be opening yourself up to
potentially nasty race conditions just to write some DRM registry
file somewhere. Ever seen an exterminator attack a mouse with a
nuclear warhead?
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