Re: Bug#278283: insecure temporary file usage in gettextize and autopoint (fwd)

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Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Also reading Posix it's not clear to me whether this [set -C]
> is really expected to fail when $filename is a symlink.

More to the point, "set -C" doesn't work in practice to avoid
clobbering $filename if $filename is a special file, or a symlink to a
special file; and POSIX clearly permits this behavior.


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