[mapserver-dev] RFC 66 - Better handling of temporary files

[Alan Boudreault]

hmm.. I understand your point. They are certainly not using all msIO* 
functions. The simpler would be to modify those functions to use CPL when 
available yes. Though it will require to be sure all temporary files are 
opened/read/writed using CPL. 

Will think about that and update the RFC.

Alan

On January 12, 2011 02:38:22 pm Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On 11-01-12 01:52 PM, Alan Boudreault wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I would like to put forward MS RFC 66 to provide a better handling of
> > temporary files. Here's the RFC:
> > 
> > http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-66.html
> > 
> > I start with my +1
> 
> Alan,
> 
> I understand the aspects that relate to msTmpFile().  What is less clear to
> me is what how the in memory temorary file handling will be implemented.
> Will this be accomplished by hooking the mapio.c (msIO*) functions to use
> CPL when available?
> 
> Would you be willing to enumerate the purposes for which temp files are
> used in mapserver?  Do they all use msIO now?  Should any of them
> deliberately be kept in the IMAGEPATH to be web accessable or was that
> always just a side effect?
> 
> Best regards,

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Alan Boudreault
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