Bug#311424: checking for write18
Frank Küster wrote:
> Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:
>
>>> but one should really check \tmpfile didnt exist before the 'touch',
>>> and maybe get rid of \tmpfile afterwards (which has possible security
>>> risks i suppose).
>>
>> Indeed, it's an unsave way to create a temporary file. An it has /tmp
>> hardcoded in it. I am quite sure that Heiko won't add something like
>> this to epstopdf.sty.
>
> So instead it should be a static warning message, shouldn't it?
Either that or some better documentation. Having to look into the sty
file isn't uncommen, but not ideal either. The only epstopdf related
documentation known to texdoc seems to be the cataloge page about the
perl script with the same name.
cheerio
ralf
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