| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> |
| Cc: | Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Rod Taylor <pg(at)rbt(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Possible make_oidjoins_check Security Issue |
| Date: | 2004-10-20 04:31:11 |
| Message-ID: | 29923.1098246671@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl> writes:
> Better, use mktemp(1). The thread testing script already does it IIRC.
There are only two uses of mktemp(1) in our source tree: configure and
config.guess. Both were gotten from elsewhere, and both jump through
some seriously unreadable hoops in order to achieve allegedly-portable
behavior. mktemp(1) is simply not portable :-( ... the Single Unix Spec
refuses to touch it at all ...
regards, tom lane
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