Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Rogier Wolff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Creating a tempfile from a C program is possible since we have a
[...]
> SYNOPSIS
> mktemp [-q] [-u] template
>
> DESCRIPTION
[...]
> If mktemp can successfully generate a unique file name, the file is cre-
> ated with mode 0600 (unless the -u flag is given) and the filename is
> printed to standard output.
Last I looked at the "mktemp" manpage it didn't create the file, and
was thus vulnerable to races. This is an incompatible change that
others didn't dare make.
The world is becoming a better place ;-)
Roger.
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