texinfo (Re: Owl packages with dangerous "tmp" functions)

[Solar Designer]

Hi,

Quoting my own post to vendor-sec,

> texinfo (texindex) I've fixed, by creating a temporary directory
> and letting texindex play there (the code relies on ability to not
> store temporary file names and re-generate them by number).  I'll
> post the patch which fixes this and a bug which caused this entire
> feature to not work (it looks like noone has ever tested it). :-)

I am now attaching the patch against texinfo-4.0.

That other bug I mentioned is this:

-      sort_in_core (&tempfiles[i], MAX_IN_CORE_SORT, newtemp);
+      sort_in_core (tempfiles[i], MAX_IN_CORE_SORT, newtemp);

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/sd

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