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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: C vs. Ada - strings
Date: 2000/05/07
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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outdated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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