Many coders do not think that creating temporary files in a secure way is important, especially in shell scripts. It’s just a temporary file, they might say. But a simple symbolic link exploit could make the whole system unusable.
When the disk partition is filling up quickly, it’s quite an hassle for the system administrator to find out the location of the files taking up the most space.
Ibrahim is a Telecom Engineer working for a big MNC. He blogs on technical stuff during his free time... read more »
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