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Date:      Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:21:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Heffner <spock@techfour.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-audit <FreeBSD-audit@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: that patch for mktemp?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004301819320.73745-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20000430211709.mheffner@mailandnews.com>

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On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Mike Heffner wrote:

> Could someone commit Peter Jeremy's patch for mktemp in libc, the one that uses
> the base-64 encoding? I've been using it for several months without any
> problems, and I think it's great for a little extra protection.

Actually, if this is the one him and I worked on, there's one problem with
it, namely that it uses '&' as one of the filename characters, which
obviously has a special meaning to shells.

Apart from that, I've also been running it since then with no
problems. I'll try and get it committed shortly.

Kris

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