Small security patch for KTempFile

Oswald Buddenhagen ossi at kde.org
Wed Sep 8 08:00:28 BST 2004


On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:56:10PM -0400, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> Basicly it changes chown() to fchown() so the ownership operations are
> done on the fd vs the filename.
> 
that's pretty much pointless, as you have a race between creating the
directory and changing/using it anyway. some things just have to be
trusted ...

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