Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 22:29:50 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mktemp(1) usage Message-ID: <200012100529.WAA26442@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Dec 2000 17:13:34 EST." <20001209171334.J671@puck.firepipe.net> References: <20001209171334.J671@puck.firepipe.net> <20001209150853.A57045@peitho.fxp.org>
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In message <20001209171334.J671@puck.firepipe.net> Will Andrews writes: : On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 03:08:54PM -0500, Chris Faulhaber wrote: : > Would it be more appropriate for scripts such as periodic(8) to : > call mktemp(1) using the -t flag. In addition to using TMPDIR, : > this allows the use of the system's _PATH_TMP instead of : > hardcoding /tmp. : : Maybe that method doesn't use a random enough number to avoid file : races? If it doesn't, then maybe it should, don't you think. But I think it does. We're looking at 8 X's. It would also be a good place to bump it to 10 if we needed to, say. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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