temp file creation problem in inn

Alan Cox alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Sun Dec 31 01:04:13 UTC 2000



> Thanks, I'll take a look.  Note that one problem is that INN uses a large
> number of shell scripts, and safe temporary file creation in shell scripts
> is a non-trivial problem.

The openbsd folks added a mktemp utility to address this and make the safer
tmp file handling available beyond C.  AFAIK its under a generic BSD license
so could be shipped with INN




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