Flavio's blog » programming http://flavio.stanchina.net challenging common wisdom since he was 3 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 23:18:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 One more reason to ditch Windows http://flavio.stanchina.net/2006/12/05/one-more-reason-to-ditch-windows/ http://flavio.stanchina.net/2006/12/05/one-more-reason-to-ditch-windows/#comments Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:20:45 +0000 Flavio http://flavio.stanchina.net/?p=18 One of our programs wasn’t working when the input file was on a Linux server. You know, I make a living writing software on Windows, but I’m a Linux guy at hearth, so this was a bit disappointing. Initially, I blamed it on a misconfigured Samba, then I looked at the code and saw that it errored out on a call to tmpfile(). OK, let’s look at the documentation for tmpfile() in the Visual Studio help, just in case…

… The temporary file is created in the root directory. …

Say what?

No, really… WHAT?!?!?

Let’s put aside for a second the fact that any sensible administrator will never, ever allow write access to the root directory of a network volume. AFAIK, the root of the C: drive is read-only on Windows XP if you don’t have administrative rights, so this would break.

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