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bug#19858: 25.0.50; Docstring bug in make-temp-name
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Glenn Morris |
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bug#19858: 25.0.50; Docstring bug in make-temp-name |
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Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:42:46 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Presumably, HOME is only writable by yourself, so you can presume that
> there's no attacker trying play race-condition tricks on you in there to
> try and get to run code under your UID.
If it meant "it's safe so long as no-one else can write to the
containing directory", then I think it should have said that rather than
making assumptions about the permissions of HOME.
Anyway, I don't think those various qualifications were helpful, so I
basically removed them from the doc.