Re: temp queues

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck+obsd@2002.snew.com>]

Ensure that the fifo create actually worked and you are looking
at YOUR fifo, avoiding some race conditions (e.g., bad guy creates
a fifo right before you try to and his gets the information).

I dunno what a "pacs image server" is, so I dunno if you don't
want your own (owned by your user) area that just clears the
dir on startup.

Quoting Liam (allenwc@shaw.ca):
> >Nick Nauwelaerts on 29/10/2002 wrote the bit with this mark:
> 
> >>On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:03:10 -0800 Liam <allenwc@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >>
> >> I want to create some temporary fifos.
> >> 
> >> Under openBSD, where is the approved location for these?
> >> (/var/spool/myqueues ?) or ( /temp/myqueues ?)
> >
> >Most files in /tmp don't survive a reboot, so that will be a large
> >factor I guess. It all depends on the kind of application: * do the
> >files need to be kept open * do they need to be accessible by other
> >processes/users
> 
> It's for a pacs image server . . . not that such info will help but . .
> .
> 
> they are temp files only, one per connection, they would be ideally
> removed on reboot.
> They would be read/written only by the server or its children.
> Ideally, as each child finishes it should remove its fifo.
> 
> >I'd feel inclined to just store them in a subdirectory of my homedir
> >if it's for a user process or use mkstemp() if they don't have to
> >survice a reboot.
> 
> hmmmm, sounds like /tmp is it
> 
> --
> Liam Allen               allenwc@shaw.ca
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