mktemp

Andrew Bartlett
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 15:19:33 -0000

Blue Lang wrote:
>
> Has this not been changed to mkstemp just for reason of having to change
> all of the smbd_mktemp() calls, for portability, or some hidden arcana?
>
> Are there any platforms that samba supports that don't have mkstemp?
>

Samba 2.2 (in CVS) has most of the mktemp calls replaced, but still
needs work done on the last one.  I have a patch that fixes this, but I
am yet to test it.

Part of the reason for the inertia is that all the mktemp calls within
samba are safe - they cannot expose a security risk becouse the results
are only used in an open call with the O_EXCL flag.

In any case, these warnings should be gone in some future release.

Andrew Bartlett
abartlet@pcug.org.au

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Andrew Bartlett
abartlet@pcug.org.au