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Re: [Nmh-workers] thoughts on tmp*

2008-04-17 15:38:14
Chad Brown wrote:
I imagine that this usage is relatively low these days, but shared  
mail folders make use of `mail homedir' look almost like using /tmp  
again, with a few less opportunities for attack and several more for  
trouble with remote filesystems.

Mmm. I think my opinion has veered towards trying to get a 1.3
release first, and then after that providing a new tempfile
function which returns a file descriptor to a safe tempfile,
and moving some of the uses over to that. Then we can see
what's left.

-- PMM


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