I think this patch doesn't work when installing a new package (it does
work on upgrades). So I think the two added lines need to be within an
'if [ -e $outputfile ] ; then' statement.
I figured that and re-created the patch - apparently, I uploaded the old one
:(.
Turns out it is not
On 31-10-14 12:35, Dominik George wrote:
I think this patch doesn't work when installing a new package (it does
work on upgrades). So I think the two added lines need to be within an
'if [ -e $outputfile ] ; then' statement.
I figured that and re-created the patch - apparently, I uploaded
mktemp is supposed to be secure, catting into a yet non-existing file
may not. Paul
mktemp is safe in that it uses unique file names. Apart from that it
adheres to the effective user and effective umask, making it no more and
no less safe than any other operation creating files.
-nik
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:59:06 +0100, Dominik George wrote:
mktemp is supposed to be secure, catting into a yet non-existing file
may not. Paul
mktemp is safe in that it uses unique file names. Apart from that it
adheres to the effective user and effective umask, making it no more
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