Subject: bug#19858: 25.0.50; Docstring bug in make-temp-name

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 22:46:41 -0500

>> make-temp-file can also create a temp file in the user's home directory
>> (so your criticism also applies to the first point).
>> The issue is simply that in cases other than the above two, using
>> make-temp-name is *dangerous*.
> Why's it not dangerous in HOME?

Presumably, HOME is only writable by yourself, so you can presume that
there's no attacker trying play race-condition tricks on you in there to
try and get to run code under your UID.

        Stefan