To be honest, I'm not sure quite where naievety comes into this? Of course if anyone out there happens to running ther web server, PHP(fcgi), and the swftools executables with root privileges and full write access, then there may just be a few insecure systems asking to be visited by A. Hacker..
Chris. >On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 01:56:51 -0400 >Matt Sergeant <[email protected]> wrote: > Well let's not be naive here. Lots of people are using swftools on the > server. If they are having trouble with temporary files there's a > large potential for security issues. Basically always use known secure > systems for creating temporary files. Don't invent your own. > > On 2012-06-16, at 5:47 PM, List_Subs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:38:53 +0200 > > [email protected] wrote: > > > >> I have a php script to start several processes of pdf2swf working > >> on the same pdf-file. > > > > The question, 'why, would you wish to have several process working > > on the same file?', sort of pops into my head.. ;o) > > > >> If started immediately after each other, only one process survives, > >> all others die with "Error: Couldn't create temporary font file" > >> logged. > > > > Can't say I'm surprised. They are all attempting to create/access > > the same temporary file, and thus getting in each others way. If > > they had different temporary files to work on, then the problem > > would simply go away. > > > >> It seems to me this is kind of a race condition with faster version > >> 0.9.2, because if I add 1 second delay before starting subsequent > >> processes no errors occur. > > > > Which makes sense, if you think about it. > > > > So, since you yourself created the issue, and have in one way at > > least, resolved it, it begs the further question, what exactly is > > the issue you have? ;o) > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Chris. --------------- SWFTools-common is a self-managed list. To subscribe/unsubscribe, or amend an existing subscription, please kindly point your favourite web browser at:<http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/swftools-common>
