Re: [Linuxcommand-discuss] more change

[Tomi O. <Tom...@so...>]

Sunday Jun 18 14:08:41 -0400 2000 root <ro...@te...> wrote:
> 
> blah... slow day at work today... sorry for all the spam :)
> 
> a fix for the security issue brought up with 'new_script' in regards to
> the tmp file race conditions that exist...
> 
> if a temp file is needed...
> 
> function temp_dir
> {
> 	#####
> 	#	create a secure temp file thus avoiding
> 	#	race conditions that may exist on a multi-
> 	#	user system
> 	#####
> 
> 	TEMP=`ls | grep tteemmpp | awk {'print $1'}`
> 		if [ "$TEMP" != "" ]; then
> 			mkdir ~/tteemmpp/
> 		fi
> }
> 
> then, for the TEMP_FILE variable, set it as such:
> ~/tteemmpp/$PROGNAME

How about:

TEMPDIR=~/tteemmpp/; [ ! -d $TEMPDIR ] && mkdir $TEMPDIR

... and maybe utilizing $$ (the pid) in tmp file names.

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Tomi