Comment 14 for bug 12030

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Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:56:21 +0100
From: Javier =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez-Sanguino_Pe=F1a?= <email address hidden>
To: Bram Moolenaar <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: vim: Race conditions and symlink attacks in vim (tcltags and vimspell)

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On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:33:00AM +0100, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> > > Did you contact the original authors, Darren Hiebert and Neil
> > > Schemenauer?
> >=20
> > No, I didn't. I was not sure if they were still active. Do you want me =
to=20
> > forward this?
>=20
> Yes. They are the authors, thus I hesitate to change their work without
> at least trying to contact them.

Ok. Will do.

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> > > I wonder if there isn't a shorter method. The handling of the temp f=
ile
> > > becomes more than half the script this way.
> >=20
> > Actually, there is, you could remove the lines that try to use a tempor=
ary
> > file in a temporary directory (below the comments) and just abort with =
a=20
> > "Cannot create temporary file" message if tmp_tagfile (or OUTFILE) are=
=20
> > 'none'.
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> So there would be a few (old?) systems where the script won't work?

Correct. Those that don't have mktemp or tempfile. These should be=20
available in most Linux distributions but I'm not sure about their=20
availability in other UNIX systems (I believe mktemp is available in=20
Solaris, in HP-UX and in Tru64 but not in AIX, for example)

Regards

Javier

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