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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitk: use mktemp -d to avoid predictable temporary directories
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2014 14:57:52 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140615045752.GF21978@iris.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1402695828-91537-1-git-send-email-davvid@gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 02:43:48PM -0700, David Aguilar wrote:
> gitk uses a predictable ".gitk-tmp.$PID" pattern when generating
> a temporary directory.
> 
> Use "mktemp -d .gitk-tmp.XXXXXX" to harden gitk against someone
> seeding /tmp with files matching the pid pattern.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>

Thanks, applied.

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-15  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-13 21:43 [PATCH] gitk: use mktemp -d to avoid predictable temporary directories David Aguilar
2014-06-15  4:57 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2014-06-15  7:51 ` Pat Thoyts
2014-06-15 16:32   ` brian m. carlson
2014-06-15 21:49     ` David Aguilar
2014-06-15 22:16       ` brian m. carlson
2014-06-16 18:17       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-19  2:54         ` David Aguilar
2014-06-16 11:40   ` Thomas Braun

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