Comment 34 for bug 12030

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:20:29 +0100
From: Javier =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez-Sanguino_Pe=F1a?= <email address hidden>
To: Martin Pitt <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#289560: acknowledged by developer (Bug#289560: fixed in vim 1:6.3-058+1)

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 12:04:06PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > IMHO
>=20
> There is no need for this. mktemp generates an error message on its
> own, so this would only write two messages.

Mktemp might not be available. The || test would actually check wether=20
mktemp fails (not common) and wether it's available. My message is=20
associated with the later.

>=20
> > In any case, no use in arguing this when there is so many things to wor=
k on=20
> > (and so many similar security bugs to report)
>=20
> Right, I just wanted to point out above mktemp behavior, since this
> seems to be a common misconception.

Understood, but you don't cover the event of mktemp not being available.=20
The bash would output a message but an unknowledgeable user wouldn't know=
=20
what's amiss.

>=20
> Thanks for your great work and have a nice day!

Thank you for your work.

Regards

Javier

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