On Dec 8, 6:26 pm, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > There isn't a way to limit access to a single process. mkdtemp creates > the directory with mode 0700 and thus limits it to the (effective) user > of the current process. Any process of the same user is able to access > the directory. > > Christian
Quite right. My apologies for confusing temporary file creation, for which exclusive access is used and temporary directory creation for which there is no such mode. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list