From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 02:27:19 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Plug tempfile.mktemp() hole (Iustin Pop).
X-Git-Tag: v2.4a1~1303
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=967b063add196bc2da55fdb81f91a802600b7b7b;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Plug tempfile.mktemp() hole (Iustin Pop).
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diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index a8d645a3e368..16f3f62f22ad 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ Dan Pierson
 Martijn Pieters
 François Pinard
 Michael Piotrowski
+Iustin Pop
 John Popplewell
 Amrit Prem
 Paul Prescod
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 16fc1197ebe2..014a099c580b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ Extension modules
 Library
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+- Plugged a minor hole in tempfile.mktemp() due to the use of
+  os.path.exists(), switched to using os.lstat() directly if possible.
+
 - heapq.py has been converted to C for improved performance
 
 - traceback.format_exc has been added (similar to print_exc but it returns