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Re: [PATCH] gitk: use mktemp -d to avoid predictable temporary directories

From: Paul Mackerras <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 23:01:37

On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 02:43:48PM -0700, David Aguilar wrote:
gitk uses a predictable ".gitk-tmp.$PID" pattern when generating
a temporary directory.

Use "mktemp -d .gitk-tmp.XXXXXX" to harden gitk against someone
seeding /tmp with files matching the pid pattern.

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar <redacted>
Thanks, applied.

Paul.
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