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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KTemporaryFile::createLocalFile()
From:       "Jaison Lee" <lee.jaison () gmail ! com>
Date:       2007-07-05 15:59:31
Message-ID: 2d720bd30707050859o4ad14a14n99230b460a714f96 () mail ! gmail ! com
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> The sticky bit doesn't solve the problem related to creating a file,
> deleting, then recreating it with the same name (which is what Dominik
> wanted).

No, that's not what the patch does. The file is never deleted; it will
be reopened in place. Oswald is correct; the patch is fairly security
safe, at least on a good working posix system. The question in my mind
is wether or not we want to easily allow the method the new function
is implementing.
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