From owner-freebsd-current  Wed Jun  7 21:28: 5 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	id 41CBB37B9DD; Wed,  7 Jun 2000 21:28:03 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org)
Received: from localhost (kris@localhost)
	by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA40106;
	Wed, 7 Jun 2000 21:28:02 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org)
X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 21:28:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
Cc: current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: mktemp() patch
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006081106170.78243-100000@lion.butya.kz>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006072127210.40068-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Boris Popov wrote:

> > 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 ?

Yes, but at the expense of weakening the number of possible random
filenames :-(

Kris

--
In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate.
    -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu>



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message