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Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 22:15:44 -0800
From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@...y.loosely.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Security risk of vim swap files
On 2017-11-01 19:12, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 07:02:22PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> > Unfortunately, glibc's implementation of tmpfile(3), which is the
> > most fool-proof interface for dealing with temporary files that the
> > C library offers, doesn't honour TMPDIR. :(
>
> We've been carrying a patch for this for ages:
Do you know why this has not been changed upstream? The code (and
infopage) mentions "SVID compatibility". Do you know of any programs
that break with this change?
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