[6340] in bugtraq
Re: Midnight Commander /tmp race
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (willy@SNOWYOWL.CSU.AC.RU)
Wed Mar 18 15:38:51 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:10:10 +0500
Reply-To: willy@SNOWYOWL.CSU.AC.RU
From: willy@SNOWYOWL.CSU.AC.RU
X-To: Pavel Kankovsky <peak@kerberos.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980317180601.20509B-100000@kerberos.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
Good $daytime,
> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:21:09 +0100
> From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak@kerberos.troja.mff.cuni.cz>
> To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
> Subject: Re: Midnight Commander /tmp race
> Solution? Don't use any temporary file at all.
> mc()
> {
> MC=`/usr/bin/mc -P "$@"`
> [ -n "$MC" ] && cd $MC
> unset MC
> }
> The function is from mcfn_install script. The alias in lib/mc.csh is
> similar. But lib/mc.sh is the aformentioned lame one. It's absurd.
Nope. This (rather old) version breaks Ctrl-O for nonroot bash
instances. However it works with Bourne shell.
Regards,
Willy.
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