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From: "Michael Tang Helmeste" <glassfish@glassfish.net>
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Subject: RE: Unsafe Message
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 21:47:23 -0400
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If its not in your code, its most likely in one of the libraries that it
uses.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Chris Johnson
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2001 9:36 PM
To: Buliwyf McGraw
Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Unsafe Message


On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:32:32PM -0500, Buliwyf McGraw wrote:
>  Everytime that i compile something on my server, i get this message:
>
>  warning: tmpnam() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp()
>
>  What it means?

tmpnam() was possibly used unsafely

> how i can avoid it?

consider using mkstemp()

Chris

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