[PATCH] Avoid near-infinite looping in __gen_tempname

[Nickolai Zeldovich]

On 4/30/07, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 22 April 2007, Nickolai Zeldovich wrote:
> > The code to create a unique file (mktemp) has a logic error in uClibc.
> >  When __gen_tempname picks a file name that already exists, the code
> > attempts to retry.  However, the code to pick a new file name is
> > outside of this retry loop, causing a retry with the same exact
> > filename, which is very likely to fail again.  This patch fixes this
> > problem by moving the random filename generation code inside the retry
> > loop:
>
> so attach your patch since the URL here is unavailable

Patch attached.

Nickolai.
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