Re: Packing a C# project.

My application is eventually going to be a root app, it's a software update
tool which is why I assumed the user WOULD have write access. But if the
file is not in the share directory and I create it in /home/whatever it
makes the checks for the file in share pointless, I'm confused. :s

If warp runs in /usr/bin and it's data files are in /usr/share why must I
place warps data files in /home? Or would you argue these files are not data
files but user config files?

2008/6/11 Isak Savo <[email protected]>:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Neil Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Question
> >
> >                 // Create the whitelist file.
> >                 if ( sTemp == "w" )
> >                 {
> >                     if ( !File.Exists( Path.Combine( BinReloc.DataDir,
> > "whitelist.txt" ) ) )
> >                     {
> >                         File.Create( Path.Combine( BinReloc.DataDir,
> > "whitelist.txt" ) );
> >                     }
> >
> >                     vEditFilter( "white" );
> >                 }
> >  To do something like the above should it work like this:
> >
> >                 // Create the whitelist file.
> >                 if ( sTemp == "w" )
> >                 {
> >                     if ( !File.Exists( Path.Combine( BinReloc.DataDir,
> > "whitelist.txt" ) ) && !File.Exists( "../share/whitelist" ) )
> >                     {
> >                         File.Create( Path.Combine( BinReloc.DataDir,
> > "whitelist.txt" ) );
> >                     }
> >
> >                     vEditFilter( "white" );
> >                 }
> > Just a bit confused and wondering if my checks are in the right places.
>
> No no no! Never assume you have write access to the datadir. On linux
> and other unix systems you are only allowed to write to the users home
> directory. The datadir location should be considered read only, even
> for the root user (it could actually be on a read-only filesystem)
>
> You can get the home directory from the system by calling:
> string homeDir =
> Environment.GetSpecialFolder(Environment.SpecialFolder.Personal);
>
> -Isak
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