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Date:      Thu, 8 Jun 2000 12:51:53 +0200
From:      Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
To:        Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <jruigrok@via-net-works.nl>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: mktemp() patch
Message-ID:  <2000-06-08-12-51-54%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20000608124605.G82993@lucifer.bart.nl>; from jruigrok@via-net-works.nl on Thu, Jun 08, 2000 at 12:46:05PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006071758550.11848-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000608124605.G82993@lucifer.bart.nl>

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On  8/06, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote:
| -On [20000608 03:12], Kris Kennaway (kris@FreeBSD.ORG) wrote:
| >Instead of using only alphabetic characters, the patch uses the following
| >character set:
| >
| >0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@#%^-_=+:,.~
| >
| >which is not believed to cause any problems with shells. The PID is also
| 
| Some shells parse # as a deletion character if memory serves me right.
| I think I noticed this behaviour when I started using zsh a few weeks
| ago after ksh.

Also ^ is used for substitutions in many shells (as in ^faulty^ok).



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