| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Possible make_oidjoins_check Security Issue |
| Date: | 2004-10-20 05:42:46 |
| Message-ID: | 20041020054246.GA15852@dcc.uchile.cl |
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On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:31:11AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> writes:
> > Better, use mktemp(1). The thread testing script already does it IIRC.
>
> There are only two uses of mktemp(1) in our source tree: configure and
> config.guess. Both were gotten from elsewhere, and both jump through
> some seriously unreadable hoops in order to achieve allegedly-portable
> behavior.
Huh, right. I was remembering mkstemp(3), which is used in the thread
test (which is not a script after all ...)
config.guess usage surely is ugly ...
--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Porque francamente, si para saber manejarse a uno mismo hubiera que
rendir examen... ¿Quién es el machito que tendría carnet?" (Mafalda)
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