KTemporaryFile::createLocalFile()

[Thiago Macieira]

Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
>now you exposed you ignorance about posix semantics. :-P
>assume temp files in /tmp. this dir is sticky. no user (except root, but
>root being trustable is a premise anyway) can rename or delete (and thus
>replace) another user's files. => we are safe.

The best protection we have is a private temporary directory, one which no 
other user can access.

The sticky bit doesn't solve the problem related to creating a file, 
deleting, then recreating it with the same name (which is what Dominik 
wanted).

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