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authorSolar Designer <solar@openwall.com>2004-01-26 04:22:18 +0300
committerDave Mitchell <davem@fdisolutions.com>2004-02-01 17:40:02 +0000
commit2359510ddb135dcc6e80153f51cff0a97b20b597 (patch)
treeb074c5df813a1e3e529f0330620b456ecc4988e6 /pod/perlopentut.pod
parenta95a5f75a0e72874474834cd9e274afa0f23b6d8 (diff)
downloadperl-2359510ddb135dcc6e80153f51cff0a97b20b597.tar.gz
Re: [perl #15063] /tmp issues
Message-ID: <20040125222218.GA13499@openwall.com> Remove insecure usage of /tmp from code and documentation p4raw-id: //depot/perl@22258
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlopentut.pod b/pod/perlopentut.pod
index 5389c1f722..0b60096f24 100644
--- a/pod/perlopentut.pod
+++ b/pod/perlopentut.pod
@@ -192,11 +192,11 @@ whether it only works on existing files or always clobbers existing ones.
open(WTMP, "+< /usr/adm/wtmp")
|| die "can't open /usr/adm/wtmp: $!";
- open(SCREEN, "+> /tmp/lkscreen")
- || die "can't open /tmp/lkscreen: $!";
+ open(SCREEN, "+> lkscreen")
+ || die "can't open lkscreen: $!";
- open(LOGFILE, "+>> /tmp/applog"
- || die "can't open /tmp/applog: $!";
+ open(LOGFILE, "+>> /var/log/applog"
+ || die "can't open /var/log/applog: $!";
The first one won't create a new file, and the second one will always
clobber an old one. The third one will create a new file if necessary