Re: Bug#19797: libc6-dev: use of /tmp/*$$ in an insecure fashion
At 07:39 -0700 1998-06-15, Dale Scheetz wrote:
>I will certainly patch the Debian version of the code, but it is not clear
>that the upstream maintainer will wish to include this patch. It is my
>understanding that the "tempfile" helper program is Debian specific, and
>may not be available on all Linux systems.
That is correct, 'tempfile' is Debian specific, and we also ship a similar
utility from OpenBSD called 'mktemp', I have no idea if other systems also
have 'mktemp' utilities.
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