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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2000 04:20:30 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: (thoughts on) the mktemp() patch.
Message-ID:  <394537FE.9AD506CD@newsguy.com>
References:  <14660.2642.194412.404753@trooper.velocet.net>

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David Gilbert wrote:
> 
> Maybe the soltion is to think out of the box.  Maybe temporary
> filestore should be a more official OS service.  Race conditions would
> be far less common if the OS itself was managing the namespace.
> 
> You might even expand the capability somewhat.  Provide process local,
> uid local and global namespaces.  You'd even gain the ability to
> specify the limits on temporary filestore.

We have an out of the box solution. But there are other software out
there in the world that happens to use mktemp() and we have no control
of. So we are trying to improve mktemp().

-- 
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com
dcs@freebsd.org

		"He is my minion, so he doesn't need a name."




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