Re: GNAT 3.14p and Red Hat 7.2

From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: GNAT 3.14p and Red Hat 7.2
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 04:49:56 -0600
Date: 2002-03-27T04:49:56-06:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.1017226261.587.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87g02nm7gm.fsf@deneb.enyo.de

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: March 26, 2002 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: GNAT 3.14p and Red Hat 7.2

> Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> 
> >> <snip>> a-adaint.o: In function `__gnat_tmp_name':
> >> a-adaint.o(.text+0x42c): the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use
> >> `mkstemp'
> >> g-os_lib.o: In function `gnat__os_lib__create_temp_file':
> >> g-os_lib.o(.text+0x2f1): the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better use
> >> `mkstemp'
> >
> > These are just warnings about potential security problems. They should
> > be ignored.
> 
> The first warning is issued because the code *does* contain a security
> problem (your Ada application will be affected only if it uses
> temporary files, though). Ignoring it won't make it go away. ;-)

More correctly, one should say "your Ada application will be affected
only if it uses GNAT.OS_Lib.Create_Temp_File."

One can certainly safely use temporary files in Ada programs.

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