cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make job.c

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue May 17 00:11:58 PDT 2005


On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 09:16:03PM -0700, Max Okumoto wrote:
> If I use mkdtemp(), there is a chance that someone with the
> same UID could race to build the fifo. Do we care about
> races with ourselves?  Or am I just being toooo paranoid? :-)

You just check the return value of mkdir, if it already exists,
you know that something evil happened. That's enough to prevent
races.

Joerg


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