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| author | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 1999-10-08 21:42:32 +0000 |
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| committer | Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> | 1999-10-08 21:42:32 +0000 |
| commit | a1f973fb9a703a62ca6d6e8ac1a9d89a2cf80a3c (patch) | |
| tree | 33502ebdc235e8e09f4d04751efb4b093b286219 /src/fileio.c | |
| parent | 37e2d8f4b2723b33e7d0bece665de20e1893d92b (diff) | |
| download | emacs-a1f973fb9a703a62ca6d6e8ac1a9d89a2cf80a3c.tar.gz | |
(Fmake_temp_name): add a ref to `make-temp-file' in the docstring.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/fileio.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/fileio.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c index 8d5e32eb426..dfa144a6607 100644 --- a/src/fileio.c +++ b/src/fileio.c @@ -846,7 +846,11 @@ so there is no danger of generating a name being used by another process.\n\ \n\ In addition, this function makes an attempt to choose a name\n\ which has no existing file. To make this work,\n\ -PREFIX should be an absolute file name.") +PREFIX should be an absolute file name.\n\ +\n\ +There is a race condition between calling `make-temp-name' and creating the +file which opens all kinds of security holes. For that reason, you should +probably use `make-temp-file' instead.") (prefix) Lisp_Object prefix; { |