Re: [Nmh-workers] thoughts on tmp*

[Peter Maydell]

Chad Brown wrote:
>I imagine that this usage is relatively low these days, but shared  
>mail folders make use of `mail homedir' look almost like using /tmp  
>again, with a few less opportunities for attack and several more for  
>trouble with remote filesystems.

Mmm. I think my opinion has veered towards trying to get a 1.3
release first, and then after that providing a new tempfile
function which returns a file descriptor to a safe tempfile,
and moving some of the uses over to that. Then we can see
what's left.

-- PMM