Re: tmp issues: trap before making safe tmp and no change directory

From: Brian Hatch (security-discuss_at_ifokr.org)
Date: 10/28/03 

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:52:34 -0800
To: security-discuss@linuxsecurity.com

> Would it be possible to write a small compiled program
> that could do the "atomically create unique
> file/directory and return it's name" program?

Yes, it's called 'mktemp'

        TMPFILE=`mktemp -t example.XXXXXXXXXX` || exit 1
        echo "blah blah blah" >> $TMPFILE 

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