Re: Packing a C# project.

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:22 PM, Neil Munro <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

Yes! Unless you have some sort of "default" whitelist file you wish to
open first. Then it should be in datadir.

Point is - never expect datadir to be writable. It doesn't matter if
you are root, datadir can be on a filesystem that is read-only (some
people like to have it like that) and then not even root can write to
it.

There is also a /var folder which some system applications use to
store data that changes. Typical uses is
 * Mail server
 * Printer queue
 * System package manager data (downloaded packages, NOT configuration)

But from what I'm guessing your "whitelist.txt" is, it sounds more
like a configuration file than anything else.

> 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?

Yes! They are (from what I understand of Warp) to be considered
configuration files.

-Isak

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