Comment 13 for bug 12030

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:33:00 +0100
From: Bram Moolenaar <email address hidden>
To: Javier =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez-Sanguino_Pe=F1a?= <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: vim: Race conditions and symlink attacks in vim (tcltags and vimspell)

Javier -

> > Did you contact the original authors, Darren Hiebert and Neil
> > Schemenauer?
>
> No, I didn't. I was not sure if they were still active. Do you want me to
> forward this?

Yes. They are the authors, thus I hesitate to change their work without
at least trying to contact them.

> > I wonder if there isn't a shorter method. The handling of the temp file
> > becomes more than half the script this way.
>
> Actually, there is, you could remove the lines that try to use a temporary
> file in a temporary directory (below the comments) and just abort with a
> "Cannot create temporary file" message if tmp_tagfile (or OUTFILE) are
> 'none'.

So there would be a few (old?) systems where the script won't work?

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