Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 09:11:21 +0200 From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de> To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make job.c Message-ID: <20050517071121.GA1915@britannica.bec.de> In-Reply-To: <42897003.2090005@ucsd.edu> References: <200505121545.j4CFjENu078768@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050512180743.6z1h22fldwksgw4w@netchild.homeip.net> <hfbr7ge2gu.fsf@multivac.sdsc.edu> <42897003.2090005@ucsd.edu>
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On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:16:03PM -0700, Max Okumoto wrote: > If I use mkdtemp(), there is a chance that someone with the > same UID could race to build the fifo. Do we care about > races with ourselves? Or am I just being toooo paranoid? :-) You just check the return value of mkdir, if it already exists, you know that something evil happened. That's enough to prevent races. Joerghome | help
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