Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 20:47:51 +0000 From: rob <europax@home.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: david@banning.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tempnam() possibly used unsafely; keeps showing Message-ID: <39D7A2F7.FD9F413D@home.com> References: <200010012250.WAA62120@d.tracker> <20001001195809.L27736@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > * David Banning <david@www3.pacific-pages.com> [001001 19:55] wrote: > > I get this error message quite a bit while compiling. > > > > Now I am getting it compiling mysql322-client; > > > > .libs/libmysqlclient.so: warning: > > tempnam() possibly used unsafely; consider using mkstemp()^M > > > > I am attempting to go through every file that makes up > > libmysqlclient.so to see if tempnam is in, then change it to > > mkstemp - but it is a lot of work. > > > > Maybe the error is not really important. > > > > Anyone know anything? > > Honestly if you're not sure for the reason of this message then > you ought to leave it up to someone with more experiance securing > programs than yourself. Contact the mysql authors and complain to > them. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message I've seen this a number of times also, most recently with xmms. I think he'd have to send a lot of complaining emails to a lot of different people :) Rob. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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