FWIW, I got around the issue with some samba mount options. They still show as 0700, but I, or anybody elsefor that matter, can still access them.
Computers are weird. :P Thanks to all who responded. :) On Dec 10, 2:57 pm, Alex Willmer <a...@moreati.org.uk> wrote: > 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
