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Date:      Thu, 02 Nov 2000 14:59:35 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        audit@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sort(1) tempfile patch
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20001102145935.mheffner@vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <p04330110b6276a964119@[128.113.24.47]>

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On 02-Nov-2000 Garance A Drosihn wrote:
|  Didn't we already have a fix to sort, which was to create a
|  subdirectory under /tmp and then have sort create all of
|  it's temp files in that subdirectory?
|  
|  If the files are in a correctly-permitted subdirectory,
|  then we don't have to care what the filename-creation
|  algorithm is (not wrt security, that is).


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