Re: Bug#20241: Timezones should depend on debian-utils
In article <[🔎] 87yaxwykhh.fsf@tiamat.datasync.com>,
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> wrote:
> This suffers from more of a window than my method does.
> rm -f $TEMPFILE && touch $TEMPFILE is safer than this.
>
> manoj
> who does happen to be a security expert
Well I'm not one for a living but it is one of my hobbies. This thread is
long enough as it is but I just can't resist. /bin/sh is a Posix shell,
so why not simply use:
set -C
: > /tmp/tempfile.$$ || exit 1
set +C
set -C causes a Posix shell to open files with O_EXCL
Mike.
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