On 2013-04-23 07:47:56 -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > you can add random characters before the suffix, and in case of > > Random chars from where?
Even functions like rand() or random() can be sufficient with a seed difficult to guess (whether Mutt is interactive or not), since there has already been randomness to generate the first filename. If this isn't OK, /dev/urandom is available on many systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random > So if mktemp deprecated/missing, mkstemps missing, suffix > wanted does that leave effectively open( random() )? > What current platforms are missing/unusable mkstemps? Not sure whether this is up to date: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/html_node/mkstemps.html -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
