Re: `svn diff' progress

cmpilato@collab.net writes:

> Philip Martin <philip@codematters.co.uk> writes:
>
> > It would be better to have a platform independent interface to a
> > "temporary area". Something that would allow one to create a temporary
> > directory with some sort of random name. An addition to apr perhaps?
>
> Yep. This would be better. In fact, there is an issue logged already
> against svnlook that sez it should also be using such a "temporary
> area" once APR exposes such a thing.

FWIW, libsvn_client populates a vtable of callbacks for the RA layer
to use. One of these callbacks is a function for creating a temporary
file within the working copy admin area.

The callback used is a public libsvn_wc function:

/* Create a unique temporary file in administrative tmp/ area of
   directory PATH. Return a handle in *FP.
   
   The flags will be APR_WRITE | APR_CREATE | APR_EXCL | APR_DELONCLOSE.

   This means that as soon as FP is closed, the tmp file will vanish. */
svn_error_t *
svn_wc_create_tmp_file (apr_file_t **fp,
                        svn_stringbuf_t *path,
                        apr_pool_t *pool);

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Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:53 2006