On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:02:51PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote: > > That is a tag + security race condition between rm and mkdir. You'll > > want to use mktemp -d instead. > fixed, tnx. > > > I didn't look at your script closely; there may be other problems. > > Nothing should ever get written to /tmp/ except if the output filename > > is the result of a successful ($?==0) call to mktemp or tempfile. > > But I can use /tmp/ to store the result of an archive (in a mktemp dir) > if I remove it afterwards? Right; You can also do whatever you want to a file whose name is outputted by a successful invocation of mktemp, but note that this probably wont play nice with wget. If fn=`mktemp`, and you wget -O $fn, then wget will probably call its outupt $fn.1, since $fn exists (as a requirement for this to be done safely way, it must be created before the name is outputted).
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