Subject: bug#15522: gzcmp/gzdiff + gznew shell scripts use temporary files unsafely

From: Rich Burridge <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 21:16:40 -0700

On 10/03/2013 09:14 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> The zdiff usage of set -C is executed only on older
> platforms that lack mktemp, so it shouldn't be a problem.

Okay.

>
> znew.  What a dinosaur.  It's hardly worth fixing, but I
> installed this:

Excellent. We'll use a similar patch against the version we current have.

Thanks.