FW: [Malvern] Permissions and Securing Data

[Ian Pascoe]

Hi Keith

This all stemmed from a thread on another mailing list to do with running a
server command at the CLI and the command stopping when the user logged out
of that server.

Yes, I know it's nothing like my query, but that's the way my mind works -
on tangents - and apart from which I was also curious about the different
way Linux handles this to M$.

E

-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Edmunds [mailto:kae at midnighthax.com]
Sent: 18 June 2007 10:58
To: malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
Cc: ianpascoe at btinternet.com
Subject: Re: [Malvern] Permissions and Securing Data


Hi Ian

> If you have two instances of the same app running, which would use the
> same temporary files and program modules could there be a cross over of
> information.

If they use the same temporary files then I suppose there could be a
crossover of information. However, it would be extremely poor programming
if they really did use the same temporary files. Most languages support
the creation of a temporary file that is guaranteed to be unique.

What's the real problem here? What are you trying to do?

Keith

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Keith Edmunds

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