On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 11:19:57AM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:13:42AM -0500, Richard A. Smith wrote:
> > Newer darcs appear to have a predictable temp filename on record.  Isn't 
> > this a security problem?
> 
> Is it actually a file in a sticky directory (e.g. tmp), or is it in the
> _darcs directory? The former is perfectly fine (unless you don't trust
> yourself), but the latter is certainly a problem.

How would having it in /tmp be a problem, as long as your permissions
are sane?  (And assuming that darcs is smart about how it creates files
and sets permissions, which I think it is)

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