Use of /tmp in slink_cd?

[Jens Ritter <jens@hilbert.weh.rwth-aachen.de>]

I just found the line 

>/tmp/foo

in slink_cd. What does this do? 
Isn't this a possible security problem? (symlink attacks?)

TIA,

Jens

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