mick crane wrote: > hello, > I doing some code in perl and I'm not very good at it. > code makes some images and saves them to a directory. > If the directory doesn't exist it gets made and if it does exist all the > files in it get deleted before putting some new ones in. > I'm thinking that if I ever give it to somebody it's possible they might > call the directory > "~/" or something and end up deleting all their files, which I'd like to > avoid. > How would that best be avoided ? > Is that something to do with chroot which I don't know anything about.
always put things in a subdirectory. there is normally a directory named .local/share/<program-name>/ used for such things (or create it if it isn't there). if you have any configuration information that can be saved in the .config/<program-name>/ directory (or again create it if it isn't there). songbird
