OSS nice tmp race

[oghost () RAS-S84 NYC TRANSWIRE NET (the razor of love)]

This does not exist in the latest version of OSS on FreeBSD.  /tmp is
not used at all in any part of the package that I could find.

Version: OSS/FreeBSD 3.9.1i (C) 4Front Technologies 1996-1998
Kernel: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #3: Wed Dec 16 22:10:00 EST 1998

Cheers,
Ben

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Stefan Laudat writes:
>                 Hello all,
>
>         While digging in the "soundon" script delivered with the OSS package (the commercial
> one, of course), I have discovered something very unusual on line 26
>
> $MODTOOLS/insmod -V > /tmp/oss.tmp 2>&1
> # KABOOM! "Hey, Beavis,  told ya it was plutonium"
> MODVERS=`head -1 /tmp/oss.tmp|sed 's/.* //'`
> rm -f /tmp/oss.tmp # too late, buddy!
>
>
> Nice,huh? Just imagine that almost all soundcards are PnP today, there are few admins that
> know how to play with isapnp and ALSA (yeah, it rulez), the soundcfg or soundconf (whatever)
> script that comes with RedHat 5.x sucks big time and most of the ppl running LeeNw00x use
> OSS that seems to be a very good tool for the average RewT, honestly. And thank God OSS knows
> lots of soundcards! Most of you  are running the soundon script in rc.local, so the
> satisfaction is guaranteed:
>
>
> ln -s  /etc/inittab  (next boot you're dead)
>
> Don't worry, support () opensound com has been already notified so they will correct the bug
> ASAP I guess.
> BTW there is no bugs () opensound com, so I love their  optimistic way of thinking.
> I think  the correct code is :
>
> ## insert before line 26
> if [ -L /tmp/oss.tmp ]
> then
> logger "Hey,man, you've got a naughty (l)user -- ".`ls -lsa /tmp/oss.tmp`
>
> # die, lam0r! :)
>
> rm /tmp/oss.tmp
> fi
>
> Take care :)
>
> --
> Stefan Laudat
> System Engineer - Dragon Art
>
> "Power comes from the barrel of the gun"
>
>                         -- Mao Tze Dong