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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: Bug#278283: insecure temporary file usage in gettextize and autopoint (fwd) |
| Date: | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:27:37 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <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.
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