From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 7 21: 9:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.154.129.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5D437BF17; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 21:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bp@butya.kz) Received: from bp (helo=localhost) by relay.butya.kz with local-esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12ztd5-000KMY-00; Thu, 08 Jun 2000 11:09:15 +0700 Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:09:15 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov To: Kris Kennaway Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mktemp() patch In-Reply-To: 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 Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > This patch was developed by Peter Jeremy and myself and increases the > number of possible temporary filenames which can be generated by the > mktemp() family, by more densely encoding the PID and using a larger set > of characters to randomly pad with. > > Instead of using only alphabetic characters, the patch uses the following > character set: > > 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@#%^-_=+:,.~ Symbols '=' and '+' are prohibited in some other filesystems. It is possible to avoid using them ? -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message