PATCH: temp fixes, again
Marcus Meissner
meissner at suse.de
Sat Jul 27 08:56:28 CDT 2002
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 01:21:05PM -0700, WINE wrote:
> Marcus Meissner <meissner at suse.de> writes:
>
> > Check for mkstemp, added a port implementation if it is
> > not present. Use mkstemp() in various places needing tmp files.
>
> I'm not sure this is a good idea, mkstemp() is apparently buggy in old
> libc versions. tmpnam() is actually pretty reasonable assuming it is
> used correctly, which of course is not the case everywhere but that
> could be fixed.
This has been some time ago, and those old libc versions should not be used
anymore for security reasons.
If you have a description on what was broken I can whip up a configure
check though.
Ciao, Marcus
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