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Date:      Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:04:52 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        Mike Heffner <spock@techfour.net>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD-audit <FreeBSD-audit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: that patch for mktemp? 
Message-ID:  <200005010404.WAA74367@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2000 23:58:30 EDT." <XFMail.20000430235830.mheffner@mailandnews.com> 
References:  <XFMail.20000430235830.mheffner@mailandnews.com>  

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In message <XFMail.20000430235830.mheffner@mailandnews.com> Mike Heffner writes:
: Hrm, I suppose we might also want to get rid of '~' then.

~ isn't too special to shells, so unless it is at the start of a
filename, you shouldn't have a problem.

That said, all of the following are special metacharacters to shells:
	!$^&*(){}[]?~`"';<>|\

(recall that ^ is a synonym for |).

Warner


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