[Development] glib's and Qt's RuntimeLocation [OS X]

[Petroules Jake]

On Nov 25, 2015, at 6:52 AM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com<mailto:rjvbertin at gmail.com>> wrote:

Thiago Macieira wrote:



>> You're missing a detail. On OS X, $TMPDIR (and QDir::tempPath()) *are* user
>> specific. They're also very "immemorable"...
>
> They're not required to be. If we can detect that they are, then sure, we
> could use it as XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.



>> > It could be a subdir of $TMPDIR, but then we run into a race condition
>> > problem of creating a secure subdir with a well-established name among
>> > applications. That's why the XDG spec says that XDG_RUNTIME_DIR *must*
>> > have been created when the user logs in and must be removed when the user
>> > fully logs out.



It sounds like all this is hard to enforce without checking before returning a location. NB: that's what KDE does with the directory that is supposed to act as ... the trashbin!



Note that OS X has NSString *NSTemporaryDirectory(), and also that QSP is already half set up to determine TempLocation via kTemporaryFolderType :





kTemporaryFolderType = 'temp', /* On Mac OS X, each user has their own temporary items folder, and the Folder Manager attempts to set permissions of these*/
/* folders such that other users can not access the data inside. On Mac OS X 10.4 and later the data inside the temporary*/
/* items folder is deleted at logout and at boot, but not otherwise. Earlier version of Mac OS X would delete items inside*/
/* the temporary items folder after a period of inaccess. You can ask for a temporary item in a specific domain or on a */
/* particular volume by FSVolumeRefNum. If you want a location for temporary items for a short time, then use either*/
/* ( kUserDomain, kkTemporaryFolderType ) or ( kSystemDomain, kTemporaryFolderType ). The kUserDomain varient will always be*/
/* on the same volume as the user's home folder, while the kSystemDomain version will be on the same volume as /var/tmp/ ( and*/
/* will probably be on the local hard drive in case the user's home is a network volume ). If you want a location for a temporary*/
/* file or folder to use for saving a document, especially if you want to use FSpExchangeFile() to implement a safe-save, then*/
/* ask for the temporary items folder on the same volume as the file you are safe saving.*/
/* However, be prepared for a failure to find a temporary folder in any domain or on any volume. Some volumes may not have*/
/* a location for a temporary folder, or the permissions of the volume may be such that the Folder Manager can not return*/
/* a temporary folder for the volume.*/
/* If your application creates an item in a temporary items folder you should delete that item as soon as it is not needed,*/
/* and certainly before your application exits, since otherwise the item is consuming disk space until the user logs out or*/
/* restarts. Any items left inside a temporary items folder should be moved into a folder inside the Trash folder on the disk*/
/* when the user logs in, inside a folder named "Recovered items", in case there is anything useful to the end user.*/



The only open question is what `macLocation` domain should be returned by QSP::TempLocation: kUserDomain, kSystemDomain or kOnAppropriateDisk .
Maybe Jake Petroules already addressed that question?

In 5.7 QStandardPaths just uses QDir::tempPath(); there are no more calls to the Carbon File Manager.




R.
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