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Date:      Wed, 18 Dec 1996 00:28:16 -0700 (MST)
From:      Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   any race conditions in this code?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.961218002330.17637C-100000@alive.ampr.ab.ca>
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Off the top of my head:

	char *foo;
	foo = mktemp(strdup("/tmp/foo.XXXXXX"));
	if (mkdir(foo, DEFFILEMODE) != 0) {
		/* die a horrible death */
		exit(1);
	}
	/* do something with the directory */

I don't see any race conditions in there that could cause a security
problem; the mkdir could be made to fail, but then it simply exits.
It isn't as if it were creating a file and writing to it.

Anyone care to disagree?

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