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Tony Finch

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I am a Unix system developer from Cambridge. I work on BIND9 at the Internet Systems Consortium ( isc.org ) .

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Against /tmp

I commented on Lobsters that /tmp is usually a bad idea , which caused some surprise. I suppose /tmp security bugs were common in the 1990s when I was learning Unix, but they are pretty rare now so I can see why less grizzled hackers might not be familiar with the problems.