Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] more change

even better :)

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On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Tomi Ollila wrote:

> Sunday Jun 18 14:08:41 -0400 2000 root <ro...@te...> wrote:
> > 
> > blah... slow day at work today... sorry for all the spam :)
> > 
> > a fix for the security issue brought up with 'new_script' in regards to
> > the tmp file race conditions that exist...
> > 
> > if a temp file is needed...
> > 
> > function temp_dir
> > {
> > 	#####
> > 	#	create a secure temp file thus avoiding
> > 	#	race conditions that may exist on a multi-
> > 	#	user system
> > 	#####
> > 
> > 	TEMP=`ls | grep tteemmpp | awk {'print $1'}`
> > 		if [ "$TEMP" != "" ]; then
> > 			mkdir ~/tteemmpp/
> > 		fi
> > }
> > 
> > then, for the TEMP_FILE variable, set it as such:
> > ~/tteemmpp/$PROGNAME
> 
> How about:
> 
> TEMPDIR=~/tteemmpp/; [ ! -d $TEMPDIR ] && mkdir $TEMPDIR
> 
> ... and maybe utilizing $$ (the pid) in tmp file names.
> 
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> 
> 
> Tomi
>