Re: /tmp folder ok?

2009-01-14 Thread Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Chris Parker wrote: > You should just use NSTemporaryDirectory(). Do not just use NSTemporaryDirectory if you need to perform an atomic save operation (write new data to location X and then overwrite old data at location Y by moving X -> Y). If will not work if t

Re: /tmp folder ok?

2009-01-14 Thread Chris Parker
NSTemporaryDirectory() already does (effectively) that, and yields the same resulting folder. You should just use NSTemporaryDirectory(). .chris On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Graham Cox wrote: > > On 15 Jan 2009, at 10:31 am, Chunk 1978 wrote: > >> so an app doesn't need administrative righ

Re: /tmp folder ok?

2009-01-14 Thread Graham Cox
On 15 Jan 2009, at 10:31 am, Chunk 1978 wrote: so an app doesn't need administrative rights to writeToFile in the / tmp folder? ___ Don't do that. Instead use the FindFolder with the 'kTemporaryFolderType' constant. Here's a Cocoa wrapper (a ca

Re: /tmp folder ok?

2009-01-14 Thread CodingMammoth
Every app can write to the tmp folder but take a look at: NSString * NSTemporaryDirectory (void); On 15 Jan 2009, at 00:31, Chunk 1978 wrote: so an app doesn't need administrative rights to writeToFile in the / tmp folder? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing li

/tmp folder ok?

2009-01-14 Thread Chunk 1978
so an app doesn't need administrative rights to writeToFile in the /tmp folder? ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lis