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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>
Cc: audit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: makedevops.pl and makeobjops.pl tmpfiles 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:44:36 PST."
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On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 13:44:36 PST, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Thanks for the patch, Sheldon. This one has been annoying me for a
> while. However, I think I prefer the above option as a more generic
> solution. I presume it includes functionality similar to mkstemp().

I should mention that I made a mistake.  It's OpenBSD that has imported
File::Temp, not NetBSD.  I prefer the idea of importing it as well.

> What libc function does rand() call? random(), by the sounds of it.

I don't think so.  My take on src/contrib/perl5/t/op/rand.t is that they
use their own homegrown rand.t.

> > +   $ctmpname = "$tmpdir/ctmp." . rand(9999);
> > +   $htmpname = "$tmpdir/htmp." . rand(9999);
> 
> Any particular reason for not using rand(999999999) or so? :-)

Nope.  I just wasn't sure how large a number I could safely request.

Cia,
Sheldon.


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