Re: Possible make_oidjoins_check Security Issue

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:31:11AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> writes:
> > Better, use mktemp(1).  The thread testing script already does it IIRC.
> 
> There are only two uses of mktemp(1) in our source tree: configure and
> config.guess.  Both were gotten from elsewhere, and both jump through
> some seriously unreadable hoops in order to achieve allegedly-portable
> behavior.

Huh, right.  I was remembering mkstemp(3), which is used in the thread
test (which is not a script after all ...)

config.guess usage surely is ugly ...

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"Porque francamente, si para saber manejarse a uno mismo hubiera que
rendir examen... ¿Quién es el machito que tendría carnet?"  (Mafalda)