[glib] docs: Add a link to the Wikipedia page on TOCTTOU races
- From: Philip Withnall <pwithnall src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [glib] docs: Add a link to the Wikipedia page on TOCTTOU races
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 12:10:55 +0000 (UTC)
commit d3b07453ab0043797bbef4591bdc2b955a390b00
Author: Philip Withnall <withnall endlessm com>
Date: Fri Jan 12 12:10:16 2018 +0000
docs: Add a link to the Wikipedia page on TOCTTOU races
Try and make it a bit more obvious that g_file_query_exists() is
generally A Bad Idea.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall endlessm com>
Reviewed-by: nobody
gio/gfile.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/gio/gfile.c b/gio/gfile.c
index 812b148..4405582 100644
--- a/gio/gfile.c
+++ b/gio/gfile.c
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ g_file_enumerate_children_finish (GFile *file,
* Utility function to check if a particular file exists. This is
* implemented using g_file_query_info() and as such does blocking I/O.
*
- * Note that in many cases it is racy to first check for file existence
+ * Note that in many cases it is [racy to first check for file
existence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_of_check_to_time_of_use)
* and then execute something based on the outcome of that, because the
* file might have been created or removed in between the operations. The
* general approach to handling that is to not check, but just do the
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