Re: Secure temporary fifo creation

[Richard Atterer <richard@list04.atterer.net>]

On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 07:45:17PM -0500, Greg Deitrick wrote:
> What is the recommended method for securely creating a temporary named pipe in 
> C code?

See this for an interesting discussion:
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/avoid-race.html

You can e.g. adapt the code from the GNOME guidelines mentioned there, and 
just create your fifo instead of doing the open().

Cheers,

  Richard

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