Re: lynx-dev 2.8.3dev.2 patch 8 - reusing temp files

[Leonid Pauzner]

28-Jun-99 18:14 Klaus Weide wrote:
> Some more explanation for REUSE_TEMPFILES, below:

Nice solution!
Another (expensive) step may be creating such pages as LYNXfoo:/ pages
handled via HTStreamStack().

> In earlier versions (up to 2-7, at least), for example the HISTORY
> page, after being created once, would always be the same file
> (/tmp/L7013-4TMP.html or whatever).  This changed in connection with
> adding protection against /tmp spoofing.  Now each generation of
> the HISTORY page would use a new filename.

> But this has side effects that have bothered me for a while, in the
> following situation: