From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9960fa51a4a478af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-11 11:37:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ACT announces availability of GNAT 3.14p Date: 11 Feb 2002 13:36:54 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: <88fiD5sVuJOa@eisner.encompasserve.org> References: <5ee5b646.0201301849.4e951bcb@posting.google.com> <87sn874ymw.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1013456220 18860 192.135.80.34 (11 Feb 2002 19:37:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 19:37:00 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19883 Date: 2002-02-11T13:36:54-06:00 List-Id: In article <87sn874ymw.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer writes: > Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes: >> But attempting to make the default use of /tmp by an Ada program >> more secure than the default use of /tmp by a shell script will be >> effective only if you also prevent use of /tmp by shell scripts. > > At least on non-proprietary UNIX-like systems, thinks are getting > better, and one shell script is fixed after the other. Perhaps there is a net improvement in the distributions, but I have to believe things are not that good when you count locally written shell scripts.