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Re: Secure temporary fifo creation



On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 09:30:10PM -0500, Greg Deitrick <gdeitrick@mylinuxisp.com> wrote:
> It uses tempnam(3) to get a temporary file name as a char *, and then 
> mkfifo(3) to make the fifo named pipe from the file name.  Is this 
> sufficiently secure?
 It seems, but I am not a security expert.

> Should I post this to debian-security?
 Please do, this list is more about packaging and sponsoring uploads for
non Debian developers. Maybe debian-devel is also good.

Cheers,
Laszlo/GCS



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