From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/05/07
Date: 2000-05-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f2nsf$7eo$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87hfcct911.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org
In article <87hfcct911.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>,
Florian Weimer <fw-usenet@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> wrote:
> tmpnam() is broken as designed (the information is already
outdated
> when it is returned, and on Unix systems, an attacker could
have
> created a symlink linking to some interesting file), tmpfile()
has
> the correct interface, but you can't be sure that it's
correctly
> implemented on all systems. :-/
Now there's FUD if I ever saw it!
Advice: Don't use function xxxx
Question: That's odd, why not?
Answer: It may be implemented wrong.
To the extent that this is an effective argument, it can
presumably be used for all xxxx :-)
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Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-02 0:00 C vs. Ada - strings Wes Groleau
2000-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-05-06 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-06 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
2000-05-06 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-05-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-18 0:00 ` Pete
2000-05-18 0:00 ` dale
2000-05-18 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-19 0:00 ` dale
2000-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-22 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-22 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-05-24 0:00 ` 'img Peter Hermann
2000-05-24 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-24 0:00 ` 'img Ted Dennison
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Peter Hermann
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Keith Thompson
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Ted Dennison
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img dmitry
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img Brian Rogoff
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-26 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-25 0:00 ` 'img Robert Dewar
2000-05-19 0:00 ` C vs. Ada - strings Geoff Bull
2000-05-19 0:00 ` mike
2000-05-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Pete
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Java vs. Ada - strings (was: C vs. Ada - strings) Ted Dennison
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Pete
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Pete
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-05 0:00 ` David Botton
2000-06-05 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-06 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-06-06 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-06-06 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-06-03 0:00 ` C vs. Ada - strings Ken Garlington
2000-06-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
2000-06-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-05-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
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