Re: Finalizing 'inhibit-automatic-native-compilation'

[Andrea Corallo]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Before e6043641d30 the file was created by Fmake_temp_file_internal and
>> afterwards overwritten by libgccjit.
>
> Yes, that was good.
>
>> So I guess one could remove the file after the first creation and make
>> it a link pointing to some other file waiting for libgccjit to do
>> its write.
>
> "One" as in "an attacker"?  In `/tmp` an attacker should not be able to
> do that because it's supposed to be using the sticky bit so that only
> the owner of a file can remove it.

Finally understood thanks!

I've installed 5d0b45cd67b on emacs-29 in order to use always
`make-temp-file'.

I think at the time I preferred Fmake_temp_file_internal not to call
into Lisp for some reason I can't remember now, anyway seems to work now
for me (just bootstrapped successfully).

  Andrea