[TriLUG] mktemp - way cool, thanks

Jon Carnes jonc at nc.rr.com
Wed Feb 20 20:03:07 EST 2002


Way cool. Thanks for the tip on "mktemp".  

I've been dancing around that particular problem for years.  My standard 
work-around has always been to create a directory with isolated rights.  
That's not nearly as elegant as using mktemp.

Jon

On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:46 pm, Jeremy P wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Jon Carnes wrote:
> > The truth be known, I use /root/tmp for these... but modified the scripts
> > for general use.
>
> Well, that's fine, but I still think it's good to be in the habit of using
> mktemp (or mkstemp(3) for you programmers) anytime you need a temporary
> file.  I'm amazed at the number of programs out there which still use
> unsafe temporary file generation, even given the amount of attention this
> has gotten on Bugtraq and other security fora.
>
> --Jeremy
>
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