strip is broken now

Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Mon Nov 26 22:28:00 GMT 2001


> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:42:51PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
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>> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-11/msg00243.html
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>> Hmmm... mktemp() doesn't create a file, mkstemp and mkstemps does.
> 
> 
> We should either back out the change or have a new function which takes
> an additonal argument to indicate a file/dir should be created.

FWIW I agree with H.J. here.

At present the code is pretending that it has fixed a security problem 
yet it actually hasn't.  It just made it harder to exploit.

Andrew




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