Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 09:48:46 -0700 From: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mktemp() patch Message-ID: <20000608094846.A53442@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006082054040.513-100000@besplex.bde.org>; from bde@zeta.org.au on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:50:48PM %2B1000 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006071758550.11848-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006082054040.513-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 09:50:48PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > I think it should use only letters and digits. For 6 X's, this gives a > namespace of size 52^6 provided the namespace is not gratuitously (?) > reduced using the pid. Best variant will be to keep the name MSDOS FS 8.3 name safe. > Why are we still using the pid? It is highly non-random. It was originally I agree. We must not use getpid() since we have arc4random(). -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru> http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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