On 2010-01-20, Adam Akhtar <adamtemporary / gmail.com> wrote: > This creation and deletion code will be spread around my project and not > just one place which makes it more prone to errors. So write a standard tool and use it from everywhere. > Am i just being paranoid or do you black belt ruby developers have a few > tricks to guard yourself from this hazzard? One thing would be to sanity check that the directories in question are in a particular area that you think you have the right to create and delete files in. Another would be to run on a system with a decent security model as an unprivileged user. :) -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nospam / seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated!