From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: doc-view cache file permissions
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:52:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8x5knm6i.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v9odegdzbw.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (Reiner Steib's message of "Tue\, 30 Oct 2007 23\:14\:59 +0100")
>>> + ;; Try and make sure doc-view-cache-directory exists and is safe.
> [...]
>> Is that worthy of being the basis of a more generally available
>> `make-secure-directory' function?
> Isn't `make-temp-file' with `dir-flag' set supposed to create a secure
> directory?
Yes, indeed. But the author of doc-view decided to try and keep the png
images (generated from the .pdf or .dvi file) and reuse them across
invocations if the file hasn't changed in between.
So the "temporary" directory needs to be at a well-known location, so
make-temp-file can't be used.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-31 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-30 18:50 doc-view cache file permissions Glenn Morris
2007-10-30 20:11 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-30 20:57 ` Glenn Morris
2007-10-30 21:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-31 7:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-31 7:56 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-31 15:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-31 17:46 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-31 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-10-31 19:44 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-31 20:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-02 20:44 ` Juri Linkov
2007-11-02 23:53 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-11-03 14:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-03 19:20 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-11-05 12:01 ` isearch for doc-view.el (was: doc-view cache file permissions) Tassilo Horn
2007-11-05 12:43 ` isearch for doc-view.el David Kastrup
2007-11-05 13:19 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-11-05 15:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-05 16:42 ` CEDET/senator kill the buffer-local value of isearch-search-fun-function (was: isearch for doc-view.el) Tassilo Horn
2007-11-05 21:01 ` isearch for doc-view.el Tassilo Horn
2007-11-05 21:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-05 21:51 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-11-06 0:44 ` Juri Linkov
2007-11-06 8:25 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-11-06 22:29 ` Juri Linkov
2007-11-07 8:41 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-11-10 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2007-11-06 8:34 ` Tassilo Horn
2007-10-30 22:14 ` doc-view cache file permissions Reiner Steib
2007-10-31 0:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-10-30 20:34 ` Tassilo Horn
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