From owner-freebsd-audit Sat Nov 11 1:31:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from lists01.iafrica.com (lists01.iafrica.com [196.7.0.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36AF837B4C5; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:31:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from nwl.fw.uunet.co.za ([196.31.2.162]) by lists01.iafrica.com with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #2) id 13uX0G-0000S5-00; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:31:16 +0200 Received: (from nobody@localhost) by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za (8.8.8/8.6.9) id LAA11258; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:31:24 +0200 (SAST) Received: by nwl.fw.uunet.co.za via recvmail id 11229; Sat Nov 11 11:30:33 2000 Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.fw.uunet.co.za) by axl.fw.uunet.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13uWzZ-0007FV-00; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:30:33 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Robert Watson Cc: Kris Kennaway , audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mktemp() patch, again In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:24:34 EST." Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:30:33 +0200 Message-ID: <27868.973935033@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:24:34 EST, Robert Watson wrote: > I used to accept the idea of using varying case to increase the randomness > space. In light of Mac OS X's case-preserving but case-insensitive file > system, I think it would be wiser not to rely on case-independence. I don't think that POSIX.1 specifies any knob that indicates case sensitivity in the filesystem, but it'd probably be okay for BSD code to rely on some BSD conditional. That would make it easy for the Darwin folks (and others) to control the behaviour. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message