I must say this, though I suspect Aleph1 will be starting to get
annoyed at both sides of this silly discussion:
I am quite fascinated at the extent to which people will go to avoid
fixing the /tmp races in the programs in question.
To me it is quite clear that your patches are breaking the
expectations which regular code has in a POSIX/UNIX environment,
ie. expectations that /tmp works.
Perhaps your next patch will make it impossible to create directories
or files in /tmp.
Because, as I am sure you do realize, it is very easy to effect denial
of service attacks by creating a directory where a program expects a
file, or a file where a program expects to create a directory.
So... how much longer is this futile slashing going to continue?