1 Many plugins seem to create temporary files. Although it is not much code, it is duplicated, and a
2 typical place for security bugs. Would it be worthwhile to have library functions for creating temporary files
3 and directories? If nothing else, it would serve as documentation of the "official way".
5 Off to cut and paste :-) --[[DavidBremner]]
7 > Hmm, I see only three users of temp files in all ikiwiki:
8 > * hnb uses `File::Temp::mkstemp` to create two temp file handles.
9 > * teximg uses `File::Temp::tempdir` to create a temporary directory.
10 > * attachment retrieves a temp file from `CGI::tmpFileName`.
11 > These are three quite different uses of temp files, not subject to
12 > unification. Using `File::Temp` (and avoiding the posibly insecure
13 > `mktemp`, `tmpname`, and `tempnam` functions) is probably as unified as
14 > can be managed. --[[Joey]]
16 >> OK, fair enough. Somehow the code in teximg made me think it was
17 >> all a bit complicated. But after I played with it a bit more (and used File::Temp)
18 >> I tend to agree, there is no real problem there to fix.
19 >> Feel free to mark [[done]] [[DavidBremner]]