RE: [Gnu-arch-users] patch: clean up some cacherev mess

[Derek Zhou]

Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>
> I think my keyword here was `something like'.  /tmp would be hardcoded
> so such things cannot happen, and not links to be followed, etc etc
> etc.
>
Probably not going to happen. I read somewhere that if users are allowed
to reap /tmp anytime at will, a malicious user can exploit some race
condition in tmp file creation to do privilege escalation.
Derek