Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 15:48:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mktemp() patch Message-ID: <200006112248.PAA29429@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006111542190.62894-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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: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
There's reasonable, and there's overkill. mktemp() has no business
using punctuation in the temporary file names.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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