* Matt Zimmerman 

| Is there some reason that it _should_ fail if the directory already
| exists?  Normally, that is not an error condition.

It is a race condition and a possible security hole, since /var/tmp is
publically writeable.  If he used some other non-trwxrwxrwx-dir it
would be better.

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Tollef Fog Heen
Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are.

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