From owner-freebsd-audit Sat Nov 11 10:55:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-audit@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8893E37B4CF; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 10:55:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id eABItng32162; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:55:49 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id eABIv1G31635; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:57:01 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200011111857.eABIv1G31635@billy-club.village.org> To: Sheldon Hearn Subject: Re: mktemp() patch, again Cc: Robert Watson , Kris Kennaway , audit@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:30:33 +0200." <27868.973935033@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> References: <27868.973935033@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:57:00 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <27868.973935033@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> Sheldon Hearn writes: : > I used to accept the idea of using varying case to increase the randomness : > space. In light of Mac OS X's case-preserving but case-insensitive file : > system, I think it would be wiser not to rely on case-independence. : : I don't think that POSIX.1 specifies any knob that indicates case : sensitivity in the filesystem, but it'd probably be okay for BSD code to : rely on some BSD conditional. That would make it easy for the Darwin : folks (and others) to control the behaviour. Actually I think that it is ok to use the larger random space. Since we still to collision detection, it will still be safe. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message