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Date:      Wed, 7 Jun 2000 21:28:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mktemp() patch
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006072127210.40068-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006081106170.78243-100000@lion.butya.kz>

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On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Boris Popov wrote:

> > Instead of using only alphabetic characters, the patch uses the following
> > character set:
> > 
> > 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz@#%^-_=+:,.~
> 
> 	Symbols '=' and '+' are prohibited in some other filesystems. It
> is possible to avoid using them ?

Yes, but at the expense of weakening the number of possible random
filenames :-(

Kris

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