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| author | Dominic Dunlop <domo@computer.org> | 2000-12-14 11:13:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2000-12-14 21:38:05 +0000 |
| commit | 60cba15a811438a2d052d1c9747a334fc770974d (patch) | |
| tree | 68b2d965998cb77413c4811243c56740d394bac3 | |
| parent | fc40549da36a06c4f8c329427e99d706b2249e19 (diff) | |
| download | perl-60cba15a811438a2d052d1c9747a334fc770974d.tar.gz | |
[ID 20001214.003] [PATCH bleadperl] POSIX::tmpnam() is dangerous
Message-Id: <p04320407b65e3f4853aa@[192.168.1.4]>
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8111
| -rw-r--r-- | ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod index e93fb742da..10199e9a2b 100644 --- a/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod +++ b/ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod @@ -1438,7 +1438,9 @@ Returns a name for a temporary file. $tmpfile = POSIX::tmpnam(); -See also L<File::Temp>. +For security reasons, which are probably detailed in your system's +documentation for the C library tmpnam() function, this interface +should not be used; instead see L<File::Temp>. =item tolower |