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Re: OT: TMPDIR

Subject: Re: OT: TMPDIR
From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:42:42 -0800


On Nov 15, 2007, at 5:57 PM, Jack Repenning wrote:

On Nov 15, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Ben Byer wrote:
It's using Special launchd Sauce to securely create these directories. I don't yet know of any formal documentation, but you might take a peek at its implementation: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5/system_cmds-431/dirhelper.tproj/
Is there a record of the discussion that led to this change somewhere? I'm having worried thoughts about systems that use $TMPDIR for file sharing among processes running as different users ....

I don't know, but I'd try asking on darwin-dev (http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/darwin-dev ) -- Ben Byer CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer

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