Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:22:40 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mike Heffner <spock@techfour.net>, FreeBSD-audit <FreeBSD-audit@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: that patch for mktemp? Message-ID: <200005010422.WAA74667@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2000 21:17:14 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004302111520.93638-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004302111520.93638-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004302111520.93638-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> 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
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