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Date:      Sat, 9 Dec 2000 15:08:54 -0500
From:      Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
To:        freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   mktemp(1) usage
Message-ID:  <20001209150853.A57045@peitho.fxp.org>

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Would it be more appropriate for scripts such as periodic(8) to
call mktemp(1) using the -t flag.  In addition to using TMPDIR,
this allows the use of the system's _PATH_TMP instead of
hardcoding /tmp.

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Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org
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Index: periodic.sh
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/usr.sbin/periodic/periodic.sh,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 periodic.sh
--- periodic.sh	2000/11/26 03:37:34	1.19
+++ periodic.sh	2000/12/03 17:50:51
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 host=`hostname`
 export host
-tmp_output=`mktemp ${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/periodic.XXXXXXXXXX`
+tmp_output=`mktemp -t periodic`
 
 # Execute each executable file in the directory list.  If the x bit is not
 # set, assume the user didn't really want us to muck with it (it's a


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