#5744 HIGH Update.: "Resuming" a large file from USB copies it into NAND (filling NAND)

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#5744: "Resuming" a large file from USB copies it into NAND (filling NAND)
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  Reporter:  gnu        |       Owner:  tomeu    
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  new      
  Priority:  high       |   Milestone:  Update.2 
 Component:  datastore  |     Version:  Build 653
Resolution:             |    Keywords:  relnote  
  Verified:  0          |    Blocking:           
 Blockedby:             |  
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Comment(by gnu):

 Replying to [comment:11 walter]:
 > Also, it is not clear what security concern is addressed by the file
 copy.

 If the datastore handed over a file descriptor, opened for reading only,
 to the activity, it's not clear what mischief the activity could do.
 fchmod perhaps?  How much do we care?

 (Note: Unix domain sockets can pass file descriptors from process to
 process.  Also, if we used this capability, it would be yet another way
 that Sugar activities would break when run like any other X client (over a
 network).]

 > ...it wasn't clear that there was an easy fix...

 Yes. it appears that an API change is needed, which will require changes
 in all activities.  The current API requires the activity to open, use,
 and then *delete* the file whose name it was handed by the datastore!

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5744#comment:12>
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