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

Alexander Leidinger netchild at FreeBSD.org
Tue May 17 05:45:10 PDT 2005


Max Okumoto <okumoto at ucsd.edu> 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? :-)

Are you sure? mkdtemp() generates a "random" name like mkstemp() does, so the
race would have existed already before (but the probability is very low that
two make instances generate the same name)...

Bye,
Alexander.

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