Am 15.08.2008 14:42, Andreas Metzler schrieb:
On 2008-08-15 Clint Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
is there actually a reason for using the PID and for limiting the
non-pid part to [[A-Za-z]?
Why not
--------bugs included-----
--- mktemp-1.5.orig/priv_mktemp.c
+++ mktemp-1.5/priv_mktemp.c
@@ -81,25 +81,20 @@
register char *start, *trv;
struct stat sbuf;
int pid, rval;
- char *alphabet = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
+ char *alphabet =
"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+-=%#_";
yes, but I would avoid the special chars as a component of filenames. You
don't know what existing scripts will do with filenames like that. (however
e.g. "_" might be safe under every circumstances, but it doesn't pay you
that much here)
+ pid = (get_random() & 0xffff) % (26+26+10+6);
here, too
Cheers,
Dirk
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