Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 16:47:04 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mktemp() patch Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000611164530.2409B-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006071758550.11848-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: :This patch was developed by Peter Jeremy and myself and increases the :number of possible temporary filenames which can be generated by the :mktemp() family, by more densely encoding the PID and using a larger set :of characters to randomly pad with. : :Instead of using only alphabetic characters, the patch uses the following :character set: : :0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@#%^-_=+:,.~ ":" is path seperator in Apple's HFS filesystem. "@" is used as the line erase character in some shells. "#" is rubout in some shells. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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