Re: Midnight Commander /tmp race

[willy () SNOWYOWL CSU AC RU (willy () SNOWYOWL CSU AC RU)]

Good $daytime,

> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:21:09 +0100
> From: Pavel Kankovsky <peak () kerberos troja mff cuni cz>
> To: BUGTRAQ () NETSPACE ORG
> Subject: Re: Midnight Commander /tmp race

> Solution? Don't use any temporary file at all.

> mc()
> {
>         MC=`/usr/bin/mc -P "$@"`
>         [ -n "$MC" ] && cd $MC
>         unset MC
> }

> The function is from mcfn_install script. The alias in lib/mc.csh is
> similar. But lib/mc.sh is the aformentioned lame one. It's absurd.

Nope.  This (rather old) version breaks Ctrl-O for nonroot bash
instances.  However it works with Bourne shell.

  Regards,
  Willy.

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