On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:16, Tony Mechelynck <[email protected]> wrote:
On 20/02/09 05:45, Bram Moolenaar wrote: >> Changing this behavior will not be easy, so you will have to come up >> with some kind of proof that the current mechanism may fail. > Also, what about the case when a script might use tempname() in order to > get a unique name for a directory? If you (Matt) leave the file lying > around, directory creation will IIUC be impossible, which breaks > compatibility with existing behaviour. We recently discussed the security issues of temporary files on this list. Having functions that only return the name of a temporary files is insufficient. You need functions that return the actual file handle to be secure (along with a bunch of other constraints). I realize that this isn't something that can be fixed in a simple manner in VimL. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
