Re: removal of /tmp/appXXXXXX

[Brandon Erhart <berhart () ErhartGroup COM>]

if those 'X's are "psuedo-random" characters, and they change each time, 
i'm pretty sure you're safe. Unless the file is important or gets 
overwritten while linked to an important file, nothing bad should happen (I 
think??).

-Brandon

At 09:35 AM 7/29/2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:

> I found a program which removes
> a file named like /tmp/appXXXXXX.  Seems
> to be a tmpnam attempt gone wrong.
>
> Does this make the system vulnerable?
> The program is run by root as often as
> not.
>
> Matt