2007/11/23, Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > currently our (external) filter scripts are lacking resp. buggy in several > ways: > - they don't respect the TMPDIR environment variable > - not safe from a security pov [1] > - buggy (st vs $st) > - unnecessary cat calls > - create files in $HOME (which unnecessarily get picked up by tracker) > > The attached patch addresses these issues. I used mktemp to implement > the creation of safe tmpfiles. TTBOMK all modern linux/solaris > distributions ship tool. > I'm posting this patch for wider review. If you know of any platform > (we support) that doesn't ship mktemp, please let me know.
Taking no comments as approval, Committed as r1042. Michael Btw, this addresses https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164148 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
