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To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: mktemp() patch 
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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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