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gettext package

  1. Bug #9448
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 9448

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In , Paul Eggert (eggert-cs) wrote : Re: Bug#278283: insecure temporary file usage in gettextize and autopoint (fwd)

Alexandre Duret-Lutz <email address hidden> writes:

> Also reading Posix it's not clear to me whether this [set -C]
> is really expected to fail when $filename is a symlink.

More to the point, "set -C" doesn't work in practice to avoid
clobbering $filename if $filename is a special file, or a symlink to a
special file; and POSIX clearly permits this behavior.