[fpc-pascal] GetTempFileName in Linux

[Sven Barth]

Am 07.10.2010 10:40, schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
> Aahhh.. Norms. Right. like all config files should go in ~/.config/, as
> proposed 5 years ago, because ~/.program/ is "not the norm" (dumping a
> successful 20-year old practise for no apparent good reason).
>
> Meanwhile I'm still waiting for the first non-fpc app to write it's config
> files in that directory (using Kubuntu, BTW). All other apps I use still
> happily write in ~/.program/
>

While debugging some config troubles in one of my FPC apps I've found 
some other config files in ".config" (I don't remember which ones and 
also I'm currently at the wrong computer, so I can't look it up). So 
there are non-FPC apps which write in there ^^

> Same on Microsoft: 'every program must be installed under C:\program
> files\'.
> Oh yes. Meanwhile more and more programs write NOT under C:\program files\
> because it is more and more a pain in the *** with each new release of
> Windows.
>
> So: Norms ? Thank you, but I'll pass on that and implement what I
> perceive as
> simple and correct :-)

If the applications would keep their read only files in 'c:\program 
files' and write only into those directories that they should (e.g. 
user's appdata and global appdata (although this one should not be used 
for sharing writable files...)) we wouldn't have all these problems 
(virtual file store, UAC, etc.). And this "norm" should have been 
followed since NT 3.5 (in Win 9x there wasn't such a norm, because there 
was no real security ^^).
And when Microsoft merged the Win 9x and Win NT lines resulting in 
Windows XP they corrupted this norm to keep backwards compatibility with 
9x applications. Oh how beautiful... -.-

Regards,
Sven