KTemporaryFile::createLocalFile()

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007, Dominik Haumann wrote:
>  4. as kompare has the option X-KDE-HasTempFileOption it will remove
>     the file on application exit

Note that this flag only means "it has the --tempfile option".
Whether or not kompare deletes the file depends on whether or not you call it with --tempfile,
i.e. which value you pass to the boolean "tempfile" argument of KRun::runUrl().
If you don't want it to delete the file, don't pass true :)

But this wasn't what the question was about, I just wanted to point that if the deletion
by the app is a problem, then it's easy to solve. Much better than getting a temp filename
and closing the file, which effectively opens it up to symlink attacks (why do you think the
KTemporaryFile API makes it difficult to do this? ;)

> K/QTemporaryFile does not provide this functionality directly
On purpose.

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