Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > .lyx-pipe-larsbj.5423 > > That is guessable, right?
It depends, how does the client gets the number (is it a pid or is it an unique number or what)? > | If the name is unique user-wise, won't another user be able to break > | your lyx by creating a file in tmp with the name of your pipe before > | you? And how will this work with multiple lyx at the same time? > > Sure... why should we care about this? Why not? I don't want other users to break my lyx installation, why should they be able to? > That is a problem for all apps putting stuff in /tmp, how do those > apps solve it? (I bet they just punt.) They can use globally unique filenames. Alfredo
