On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 07:45:17PM -0500, Greg Deitrick wrote: > What is the recommended method for securely creating a temporary named pipe > in > C code?
See this for an interesting discussion: http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/avoid-race.html You can e.g. adapt the code from the GNOME guidelines mentioned there, and just create your fifo instead of doing the open(). Cheers, Richard -- __ _ |_) /| Richard Atterer | GnuPG key: | \/¯| http://atterer.net | 0x888354F7 ¯ '` ¯