Re: creating backups in temporary directories

[Stefan Monnier]

>     Worse yet: creating backup files in /tmp would be a security hole:
>     some other user seeing you're currently editing /tmp/foo could create
>     a symlink /tmp/foo~ to some interesting place and then when you save your
>     file the backup could be placed at that interesting place chosen by
>     the attacker.

> Is that equally true for any directory that others can write?

Yes.


        Stefan