* Clint Adams <[email protected]>, 2009-03-28, 17:24:
mktemp uses exactly 6 Xs from its template. This is contrary to what the
manual page says and quite surprising, especially given that the default
template contains 10 Xs:
$ mktemp
/tmp/tmp.XXXXH467oR
$ mktemp
/tmp/tmp.XXXXaWVaKe
$ mktemp
/tmp/tmp.XXXX6a4fkS
$ mktemp
/tmp/tmp.XXXX3POQGi
Possible courses of action:
1) revert the use of libc mkstemp, fix priv_mkstemp
2) adjust documentation and default template to reflect exact 6
3) replace mktemp with coreutils's mktemp
If my opinion matters, I'm in favour of 1 or 3.
--
Jakub Wilk
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