On 5/16/16 10:36 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> Because many traditional implementations of mktemp/mkstemp suck. > > and many modern implementations work perfectly fine. why is the default > to penalize good/fixed versions ? how about we flip this in config-top.h > like the attached patch ?
Yes, we'll try that with correct names. See what happens.
>>> the bash versions seem like it's pretty trivial to collide: it mixes
>>> current seconds count, current pid number, and a counter.
>>
>> Not quite; the calls in bash mix in the return value from the system's
>> random(). Now, if that sucks too, you're going to lose.
>
> except bash isn't calling srand anywhere that i can see, so you're
> iterating over the same values every time.
Good catch, except you mean srandom(). I'll add in a call to that for the
fallback code.
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