[maemo-developers] Write file

From: Florian Boor florian.boor at kernelconcepts.de
Date: Thu Oct 1 14:15:17 EEST 2009
Hi,

Fred Lefévère-Laoide schrieb:
> pwsafe writes the file it creates in the $MYDOCSDIR/.documents 
> (Documents) by default.
> No problemo in the SDK
> But testers have reported a problem in actual device : write error !

This sounds like "$MYDOCSDIR" is not set on the device and the application ends
up trying to write it to the root directory.

> What rights does the app run with ?

It runs as a normel, non-privileged user.  (Called "user" btw.).

> Where should we write files to ?

/home/user/ or the documents directories below would be safe. I assume that
$HOME is set at least so that you could base the actual path on this.

Greetings

Florian

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