Re: overwrite any file with updatedb
On 03 Mar 1998 12:06:08 -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
>Bryan Andregg <bandregg@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> >I think the only way to really fix this is to patch sort, so that it
>> >doesn't create files with easy-to-predict names. See "man 3 tmpfile" for a
>> >good hint on this.
>>
>> Amazingly enough I also said that we would be doing this. Did you read my
>> message at all?
>
>That's a solution? Sounds like Russian Roulette. It narrows the
>window if danger tremendously, but doesn't eliminate it. There must
>be a better answer.
The solution is not to patch to make harder to predict file names but to
create those files with mkstemp instead of mktemp. Sorry I wasn't more clear
in the first place.
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