Re: NSTemporaryDirectory() and security

FROM : Rosyna
DATE : Tue May 01 20:50:08 2007

You can use FSFindFolder() to get the temp directory for the user's
specific domain.

Note the folder returned by this has changed drastically between Mac
OS X releases, so never, ever store paths.

Ack, at 5/1/07, Jaime Magiera said:

>However, there is a security issue, in the eyes of some, that
>writing to /tmp is bad. So, they have it cordoned off on their
>systems. Another issue would be if a user was rendering content that
>they didn't want other users (such as those logged via SSH) to see.


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