Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> writes: > This feature should not write temporary files to /tmp directly, some > subdirectory should be created for this purpose. The idea is to mitigate > consequences if a user opens a file from a compromised or a malicious > source and gets /tmp flooded with a crowd of files. It is easier to > delete single directory than to spent time trying to figure out what > files are necessary for other applications and what ones are generated > by LaTeX code.
See the attached tentative patch.
>From df4d827d98063ee665d71906f358ca08ad4d0023 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-ID: <df4d827d98063ee665d71906f358ca08ad4d0023.1711366791.git.yanta...@posteo.net> From: Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:38:42 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] org-create-formula-image: Keep temporary LaTeX files in subfir of /tmp * lisp/org.el (org-create-formula-image): When compiling formula images, keep temporary LaTeX logs in a subdirectory of `temporary-file-directory' instead of littering the top-level /tmp. Reported-by: Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> Link: https://orgmode.org/list/utrkah$4s0$1...@ciao.gmane.io --- lisp/org.el | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el index f0f85822f..0793b72d6 100644 --- a/lisp/org.el +++ b/lisp/org.el @@ -16361,7 +16361,7 @@ (defun org-create-formula-image org-format-latex-header 'snippet))) (latex-compiler (plist-get processing-info :latex-compiler)) - (tmpdir temporary-file-directory) + (tmpdir (concat temporary-file-directory "orgtex/")) (texfilebase (make-temp-name (expand-file-name "orgtex" tmpdir))) (texfile (concat texfilebase ".tex")) -- 2.44.0
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