Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 11:30:33 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@citusc.usc.edu>, audit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mktemp() patch, again Message-ID: <27868.973935033@axl.fw.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:24:34 EST." <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1001110082218.60481C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:24:34 EST, Robert Watson wrote: > 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. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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