Paul Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even mktemp(1) can collide, in theory, since there is no practical way > in shell scripts to hold open and locked the file from the instant of it > is determined to be a unique name.
mktemp(1) creates the file before exiting. Other instances of mktemp(1) cannot successfully create the same file (they all use O_EXCL). Therefore this race does not exist, even in theory :) -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
