Jesper Juhl <j...@chaosbits.net> wrote: > In newer glibc's (versions > 2.06) reasonably secure permissions of > 0600 are used when creating a temporary file with mkstemp(). But for > older glibc's (versions <= 2.06) 0666 is used which is not secure.
Thanks for your suggestion! I'm afraid I prefer not to make the change. Unifdef is only using mkstemp as a convenient way to open a file with a non-clashing name. It isn't trying to be secure, so it's OK just to rely on the user's umask. And I find it hard to care about a bug that was fixed 15 years ago. I'm also trying to reduce the unixisms in the program for portability reasons and this is the most awkward part :-/ Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
