From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 07:47:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New TemporaryFile implementation for Windows:  this doesn't need a
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~6763
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c7349ee2c6863263eef4d48ee19f741e6d2244be;p=python

New TemporaryFile implementation for Windows:  this doesn't need a
TemproraryFileWrapper wrapper anymore, and should be immune from the
problem that a temp file inherited by a spawned process caused an
attempt to close the temp file in the spawning process to blow
up (the unlink in TemporaryFileWrapper.close() blew up with a
"Permission denied" error because, despite that the temp file got
closed in the spawning process, the spawned process still had it open
by virtue of C-level file descriptor inheritance).  In context,
that bug took days to figure out <wink/sigh>.
---

diff --git a/Lib/tempfile.py b/Lib/tempfile.py
index 51e43b0e0e..99177f539f 100644
--- a/Lib/tempfile.py
+++ b/Lib/tempfile.py
@@ -193,8 +193,24 @@ def TemporaryFile(mode='w+b', bufsize=-1, suffix=""):
         except:
             os.close(fd)
             raise
+    elif os.name == 'nt':
+        # Windows -- can't unlink an open file, but O_TEMPORARY creates a
+        # file that "deletes itself" when the last handle is closed.
+        # O_NOINHERIT ensures processes created via spawn() don't get a
+        # handle to this too.  That would be a security hole, and, on my
+        # Win98SE box, when an O_TEMPORARY file is inherited by a spawned
+        # process, the fd in the spawned process seems to lack the
+        # O_TEMPORARY flag, so the file doesn't go away by magic then if the
+        # spawning process closes it first.
+        flags = (os.O_RDWR | os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL |
+                 os.O_TEMPORARY | os.O_NOINHERIT)
+        if 'b' in mode:
+            flags |= os.O_BINARY
+        fd = os.open(name, flags, 0700)
+        return os.fdopen(fd, mode, bufsize)
     else:
-        # Non-unix -- can't unlink file that's still open, use wrapper
+        # Assume we can't unlink a file that's still open, or arrange for
+        # an automagically self-deleting file -- use wrapper.
         file = open(name, mode, bufsize)
         return TemporaryFileWrapper(file, name)