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Date:      Fri, 6 Mar 1998 12:17:53 -0800 (PST)
From:      dima@best.net (Dima Ruban)
To:        guido@gvr.org (Guido van Rooij)
Cc:        dima@best.net, ache@nagual.pp.ru, guido@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-gnu@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/sort sort.c
Message-ID:  <199803062017.MAA08880@burka.rdy.com>
In-Reply-To: <199803062012.VAA13861@gvr.gvr.org> from Guido van Rooij at "Mar 6, 98 09:12:40 pm"

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Guido van Rooij writes:
> > 
> > Maybe tempname() should check whether the file exsists, and if it does -
> > generate a new temp filename?
> > Fix is rather trivial.
> 
> No. This will still give you an obvious race. Actually, sort.c should use
> mkstemp(), but I did want to change as little as possible to the code.

Or mkstemp() :-)

> 
> -Guido
> 

-- dima



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