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| author | kris <kris@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-11-19 10:30:42 +0000 |
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| committer | kris <kris@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-11-19 10:30:42 +0000 |
| commit | 4d2f72a2d520d4d1b0631e32e6d0c5b170b16584 (patch) | |
| tree | da50eb71b3dec57d41b33a7181361bd0d4081d6c /lib | |
| parent | 22625cdfe7d824047b41adfc3e7d2458f8303ef6 (diff) | |
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Don't suggest people use getpid() to construct temporary filenames;
point them to mkstemp() instead.
Obtained from: OpenBSD (based on)
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/sys/getpid.2 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/getpid.2 b/lib/libc/sys/getpid.2 index 1d94d82..1eb7741 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/getpid.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/getpid.2 @@ -53,8 +53,12 @@ returns the process ID of the calling process. -The ID is guaranteed to be unique and is -useful for constructing temporary file names. +Though the ID is guaranteed to be unique, it should +.Em NOT +be used for constructing temporary file names, for +security reasons; see +.Xr mkstemp 3 +instead. .Pp .Fn Getppid returns the process ID of the parent |
