Re: [gmail] Re: sponsor quake3 quake3-data packages
What Debian package is mktemp and tempfile a part of?
And/or, is there a command I can issue on a debian system to find out
what package a command or program belongs to?
Tom
On 11/10/05, Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 08:02:51PM +0100, Marc Leeman wrote:
> > > That is a tag + security race condition between rm and mkdir. You'll
> > > want to use mktemp -d instead.
> > fixed, tnx.
> >
> > > I didn't look at your script closely; there may be other problems.
> > > Nothing should ever get written to /tmp/ except if the output filename
> > > is the result of a successful ($?==0) call to mktemp or tempfile.
> >
> > But I can use /tmp/ to store the result of an archive (in a mktemp dir)
> > if I remove it afterwards?
> Right; You can also do whatever you want to a file whose name is
> outputted by a successful invocation of mktemp, but note that this
> probably wont play nice with wget. If fn=`mktemp`, and you wget -O
> $fn, then wget will probably call its outupt $fn.1, since $fn exists
> (as a requirement for this to be done safely way, it must be created
> before the name is outputted).
>
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> Justin
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