Grant Edwards pisze: >> you get a name instead of a file, so someone else can create that file >> after you've called tempnam/tmpnam, but before you've actually gotten >> around to create the file yourself. which means that anyone on the >> machine might be able to mess with your application's data. >> >> use the functions marked as "safe" in the tempfile module instead. > > Under Windows, is there a "safe" way to create a temp file that > has a name that can be passed to a program which will then open > it? I never figured out a way to do that and had to fall back > on the "unsafe" tmpnam method.
I think it's all impossible to get only file name and feel safe. You have to have both file name and a file object opened exclusively for you. Any other way you'll get a possible race condition. -- Jarek Zgoda http://zgodowie.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
