GNU bug report logs - #29001
[wishlist] configure option to disable tmpnam

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Package: guile;

Reported by: Matt Wette <matt.wette <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:27:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #31 received at 29001-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Matt Wette <matt.wette <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 29001-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29001: git patch
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 18:11:58 +0100

Hi Matt,

Matt Wette <matt.wette <at> gmail.com> skribis:

>>From 71ff7e79369a4514a961fc5cf76593b254c32d4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Matt Wette <mwette <at> alumni.caltech.edu>
> Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 09:12:37 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] 2020-03-22 Matt Wette <mwette <at> alumni.caltech.edu>
>
> * configure.ac:
> Provide new option: --disable-tmpnam
> This is made available for installations that don't want to allow
> the insecure POSIX tmpname function.  Use mkstemp! instead.
>
> * libguile/posix.c
> tmpnam is deprecated; and enabled by ENABLE_TMPNAM

I tweaked the commit log and pushed.  Thank you!

Ludo’.
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