Hi, On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 08:14:02PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Reading debian bug #21983, > <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=21983> one > discover that there might be a security problem creating files in > /tmp/.
The security problem has been fixed 2002-01-11. At least I hope :-) I can't really test qcam and noone seems to be interested in really fixing it. Maybe noone even has a qcam :-/ > This also is in conflict with the Linux File Hierarcy Standard. > I propose the following patch to fix the problem. Anyone against it? > > - Change qcam lock file name from /tmp/LOCK.qcam.0x<port> to > /var/lock/LCK..qcam.0x<port> to get it more in sync with Linux FHS > and avoid possible security issue with keeping the lock file in > /tmp/. Looks ok. Are you sure that /var/lock is available everywhere? Bye, Henning
