Re: Warnings and potential security problem in compilation of Lua5.0-alpha

["Peter Loveday" <peter@...>]

> I think this is connected to the security problems of the tmpnam function
in
> file lua-5.0-alpha/src/lib/liolib.c, line 440.
(http://www.suse.com/us/private/
> support/howto/secprog/secprog3.html#tmpf). It would be a very good idea to
> switch to mkstemp, or if this is non-standard, at least allow it as an
> compile-time option.

I think this is more connected to the danger of tmpname potentially
returning a name that already exists from a second application calling
tmpname at the same time.

io.tmpfile was added as an alternative solution to this problem.

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- Peter Loveday
Director of Development, eyeon Software