[xmonad] Re: darcs patch: XMonad.Core: rw recompilation

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 9, 2010, at 07:10 , Tomáš Janoušek wrote:
> On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 05:02:40PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH  
> wrote:
>> ghc's only going to get confused if they're removed *during*  
>> compilation.
>> Otherwise, the worst that happens is ghc has to recreate them during
>> xmonad --recompile
>
> But those .o files stay there, don't they? What happens if a second  
> user
> --recompiles and ghc can't rewrite/delete those files due to  
> ownership?


If you're putting them in /tmp with fixed names, you're asking for  
trouble anyway (I smell a security hole).

-- 
brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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