From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jun 11 15:43:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C238D37BDC4; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:43:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA63094; Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:43:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:43:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Peter Wemm Cc: David Scheidt , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mktemp() patch In-Reply-To: <20000611223922.A04EC1CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Peter Wemm wrote: > These could matter in the light of mktemp(1). > file=`mktemp foo.XXXX` You guys are responding to old messages..I've already changed my mind about this. > Why 74 characters? Why not 64? The more characters we have in the sample set the larger the namespace and the better the statistical protection afforded by mktemp() Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message