From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: [PATCH] mktemp.3: reference mkdtemp(3) in addition to mkstemp(3) Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 10:08:29 +0200 Message-ID: <55C5B8FD.8030108@gmail.com> References: <20150808080512.GA7386@glebfm.cloud.tilaa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20150808080512.GA7386-N9aU+Tdk7XkoO014n+3aBsY9il7ykmry@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 08/08/2015 10:05 AM, Gleb Fotengauer-Malinovskiy wrote: > Mention mkdtemp(3) as another secure alternative to mktemp(3). > > See also https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2898 Thanks, Gleb. Applied. Cheers, Michael > --- > man3/mktemp.3 | 4 +++- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man3/mktemp.3 b/man3/mktemp.3 > index 79e9023..0531fad 100644 > --- a/man3/mktemp.3 > +++ b/man3/mktemp.3 > @@ -126,8 +126,10 @@ opening the file, every use of > .BR mktemp () > is a security risk. > The race is avoided by > -.BR mkstemp (3). > +.BR mkstemp (3) and > +.BR mkdtemp (3). > .SH SEE ALSO > +.BR mkdtemp (3), > .BR mkstemp (3), > .BR tempnam (3), > .BR tmpfile (3), > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html