Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 02:33:02 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>, John LoVerso <loverso@infolibria.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mktemp() patch Message-ID: <v04210110b5663d6f0735@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20000609000707.A16619@dan.emsphone.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006090704550.86326-100000@lion.butya.kz> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006082039030.67602-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000609000707.A16619@dan.emsphone.com>
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At 12:07 AM -0500 6/9/00, Dan Nelson wrote: >I still suggest not using symbols at all, since I'd like to >be able to quickly remove tempfiles by hand without worrying >if I have to escape # or ^, etc. Uh, if I understand the update, the '#' is ALREADY used for this, in the current implementation. If you haven't been having any trouble with it for the past few years, it seems odd to worry about it with the new implementation. Also, you do not have to worry about '^' in the middle of a filename. That is only significant when it's the first character of the line. Yes, someone might worry about it the first time they go to delete a file with one of those characters in it's name, but it won't take too long before they learn either to just 'rm blah*' or they'll learn that they do not have to worry about it. Just MO. --- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or drosih@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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