[mythtv-commits] Ticket #4830: Always umask before calling mkstemp()

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Mon Mar 3 16:58:05 UTC 2008


#4830: Always umask before calling mkstemp()
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 Reporter:  Erik Hovland <erik at hovland.org>  |       Owner:  ijr       
     Type:  defect                           |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  minor                            |   Milestone:  0.21      
Component:  mythtv                           |     Version:  0.21-fixes
 Severity:  low                              |     Mlocked:  0         
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 Using mkstemp() is extremely good practice. Round of applause for mythtv
 being diligent about that. But when using mkstemp, it is always a good
 idea to set the process umask to a known safe value before using it. The
 call createTempFile() doesn't set the umask before calling. It should.

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Ticket URL: <http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/4830>
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