7 Aug
2019
7 Aug
'19
2:56 p.m.
On 8/6/19 6:48 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
It's a problem for any temporary files in a
world-writable directory, hence
the extensions to directory permissions e.g. /tmp and /var/tmp...
Amusingly enough, the Mac works around this by symlinking /tmp to
private/tmp i.e. you get your own /tmp...
/private/tmp is still word-writable with the sticky bit set. What you do
get is a private $TMPDIR, e.g.,
/var/folders/41/pgctqv8s3_301dzlcghzcbs800008y/T/
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