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Re: /tmp usage and security

From: mennucci@cibs.sns.it (Andrea Mennucci)
> char *good_temp_filename(char *name)
> this function, given a name, builds a good filename for a file in /tmp/
> using name as a prefix

Please see mkstemp(3), tmpnam(3), tempnam(3), and tmpfile(3).

Of them, the best is tmpfile(), because it creates a unique temporary file
and _immediately_deletes_it_ while still holding an open file descriptor on
it, so that you can only access it via its file descriptor and nobody else
can open it. When your process dies or you close the file descriptor, the
file's storage is deallocated.

I bet lots of you didn't know that you could have a file that existed, but
had no name. There's an arcane Bash syntax for handling file descriptors, so
this can be used for scripts.

	Bruce
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