Joey Hess wrote:

> No, tmpnam generates a name for a file that did not exist at some point
> in time, but that *will* exist in the worst possible state (eg, a
> symlink to something important) when an attacker is targeting your program.

Which is why I'm trying to find a way to get rid of the calls to it in the
program I'm packaging.

regards,

Colin

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