From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 8 23:32:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.100.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5524337C1EB; Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:32:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA270442; Fri, 9 Jun 2000 02:32:39 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000609000707.A16619@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20000609000707.A16619@dan.emsphone.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 02:33:02 -0400 To: Dan Nelson , Kris Kennaway From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: mktemp() patch Cc: Boris Popov , John LoVerso , current@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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