[MINC-development] patches for tmpnam

Robert VINCENT minc-development@bic.mni.mcgill.ca
Thu, 6 Mar 2003 16:02:47 -0500


On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Steve ROBBINS wrote:

> Yes, mkstemp() completely fixes the race condition.  Not that I'm particularly
> worried about race conditions in MINC code.
>
> -S

You mean you're not afraid that the next big Internet worm will exploit a
vulnerability in minctoraw?

Well, OK, I'm not losing sleep about that, either.

So should I go ahead and make the change I described?

	-bert