From owner-freebsd-audit Sun Apr 30 21:23: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A7CF37B63C; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 21:22:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA09205; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:22:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id WAA74667; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:22:40 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200005010422.WAA74667@harmony.village.org> To: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: that patch for mktemp? Cc: Mike Heffner , FreeBSD-audit In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2000 21:17:14 PDT." References: Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:22:40 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Kris Kennaway writes: : > That said, all of the following are special metacharacters to shells: : > !$^&*(){}[]?~`"';<>|\ : > : > (recall that ^ is a synonym for |). : : Damn, I didn't know that. ! and ^ will have to be removed, which brings : the number of random characters to 73, or 389017 different random : combinations for the standard 6-X tempfile. This is still pretty good. ! is only a meta character in csh in interactive mode. ^ can likely be removed as an alais for | since this was changed in the v5 or v6 timeframe iirc and ^ was left in for backward compatibility ever since. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message