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Re: strip is broken now

From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Cc: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, sjhill at realitydiluted dot com, nickc at redhat dot com
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 01:28:16 -0500
Subject: Re: strip is broken now
References: <20011126131920.A9846@lucon.org> <200111262142.fAQLgpJ01950@envy.delorie.com> <20011126135819.A10364@lucon.org>

> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:42:51PM -0500, DJ Delorie wrote:
> 
>> 
> 
>> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-11/msg00243.html
> 
>> 
>> Hmmm... mktemp() doesn't create a file, mkstemp and mkstemps does.
> 
> 
> We should either back out the change or have a new function which takes
> an additonal argument to indicate a file/dir should be created.

FWIW I agree with H.J. here.

At present the code is pretending that it has fixed a security problem 
yet it actually hasn't.  It just made it harder to exploit.

Andrew

References:
- strip is broken now
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: strip is broken now
  - From: DJ Delorie
- Re: strip is broken now
  - From: H . J . Lu

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