Re: unicode build: "comparison is always true" warnings

[Andreas Schwab]

Matthieu Lemerre <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> In which way it is different from what mkstemp is doing?
>>
>
> When you use mktemp, you have to use two operations:
> 1/Create a file name with mktemp
> 2/Open it

That's the same what mkstemp does.

> An attacker could create a symlink with this name file between these
> two operations, thus the file would be erased.

That does not happen, because the open will fail when the file already
exists.

Andreas.

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