Bugtraq: Re: Symlinks and Cryogenic Sleep

[peak () ARGO TROJA MFF CUNI CZ (Pavel Kankovsky)]

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Olaf Kirch wrote:

> when you're dealing with files in /tmp that are supposed to be re-opened
> (rather than opened once and then discarded) there's an established
> way to do it which goes like this:
The problem lies in the premises: these files should not be stored in
/tmp. If you insist on putting them under /tmp for whatever reason, you
should use an intermediate diractory:

  mkdir /tmp/mydir
  cd /tmp/mydir || exit 1
  check whether . is ok
  play with files here

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