On środa 12 marzec 2003 06:40 am, Alfredo Braunstein wrote:
> 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?

Umm, your files in /tmp belong to you! Look at lyx's temporary directory 
already in /tmp.

Cheers, Kuba Ober

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