Bug 417

Summary:	Please don't change file suffix for sudoedit
Product:	Sudo	Reporter:	Reuben Thomas <rrt>
Component:	Sudo	Assignee:	Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	low
Version:	1.7.3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux

Description Reuben Thomas 2010-07-09 08:52:36 MDT

Editors like Emacs often choose the editing mode for a file based on
its suffix, and sudoedit frustrates this by adding some random
characters to the file name. Could it please add the random characters
elsewhere? Adding them to just before the suffix would be nice.

I see this needs a different function from mkstemp to achieve. mkstemps is available on many systems (including BSDs and glibc since 2.11), and fits the bill.

Would you consider a patch that uses mkstemps where available and the current code (using mkstemp) otherwise?

Comment 1 Todd C. Miller 2010-07-09 08:57:49 MDT

I'll look at doing this for sudo 1.7.4

Comment 2 Reuben Thomas 2010-07-09 08:58:55 MDT

Thanks, that would be brilliant!

Comment 3 Todd C. Miller 2010-07-09 10:09:05 MDT

This turns out to be fairly simple.  Give this a try:
ftp://ftp.sudo.ws/pub/millert/sudo/sudo-1.7.3-mkstemps.tar.gz

Comment 4 Reuben Thomas 2010-07-09 10:27:09 MDT

That's great, it seems to work fine. Thanks very much!

Comment 5 Todd C. Miller 2010-08-02 15:01:03 MDT

Closing, sudo 1.7.4 is out now.