if those 'X's are "psuedo-random" characters, and they change each time, i'm pretty sure you're safe. Unless the file is important or gets overwritten while linked to an important file, nothing bad should happen (I think??). -Brandon At 09:35 AM 7/29/2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote: >I found a program which removes >a file named like /tmp/appXXXXXX. Seems >to be a tmpnam attempt gone wrong. > >Does this make the system vulnerable? >The program is run by root as often as >not. > >Matt >
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