Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:57:00 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>, audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mktemp() patch, again Message-ID: <200011111857.eABIv1G31635@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:30:33 %2B0200." <27868.973935033@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> References: <27868.973935033@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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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
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