On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:59:06 +0100, Dominik George wrote: > > > mktemp is supposed to be secure, catting into a yet non-existing file > > may not. Paul > > mktemp is safe in that it uses unique file names. Apart from that it > adheres to the effective user and effective umask, making it no more and > no less safe than any other operation creating files. > That's not true. It creates files 0600 (minus umask). Pretty much any other operation creating files uses 0666 (minus umask). Cheers, Julien
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