On Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Bruno Haible wrote: > is to make filename sit in a temporary directory under /tmp, not directly > in /tmp ? For the truly paranoid, even that is not sufficient. > > Not bad, but still not perfect: mktemp is not a POSIX standardized > utility, and $RANDOM is bash specific. So what do you propose on POSIX > systems without mktemp and bash? Just fall back on the unsecure foo$$ > pattern? Or ship an mktemp.c with the package, to be compiled by > 'configure' very early? > > It would be nice if we could write up the result of this discussion, when > finished, in the autoconf manual. > http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.57/html_chapter/autoconf_10.html > > Bruno > > > > _______________________________________________ > Autoconf mailing list > Autoconf@xxxxxxx > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf > -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
