Small security patch for KTempFile

Ian Reinhart Geiser geiseri at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 8 04:56:10 BST 2004


Greetings,
I know this is probably not the most important security patch for KDE, but
it has been on my drive here for over a year.

Basicly it changes chown() to fchown() so the ownership operations are
done on the fd vs the filename.  I _think_ the operation remains
unchanged, and I have not found an instance where it behaves badly.

Opinions?

Cheers
   -ian reinhart geiser

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