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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#2057: kfm tmp filenaming conventions
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-12-23 9:29:01
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On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, David Faure wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 01:23:55PM -0700, Allen Crider wrote:
> > Package: kfm
> > Version: 1.167.2.21
> >
> > It is possible to right-click an item in an ftp directory and pass
> > the requested file directly to Archiver. However, kfm/kio creates a
> > file in the tmp directory but adds unique PID at the END of the
> > filename, thus Archiver cannot understand the file format. Archiver
> > expects gz or tgz etc. as the filename extension.
> >
> > Prepending the unique PID, or creating a directory tmp/pid# would
> > fix the problem.
>
> Fixed in konqueror, by using the format <pid>-<filenr>-filename
> instead of filename-<pid>-<filenr>  (in kfmexec).
>
> Thanks a lot for the report !

And this is why KTempFile supports extensions ;-)

Cheers,
Waldo

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