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Re: [bug-bash] $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number
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Robert Elz |
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Re: [bug-bash] $RANDOM not Cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator |
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Mon, 21 Jan 2019 23:42:08 +0700 |
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 09:43:17 -0500
From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Message-ID: <94f6225c-8de2-cd3d-c83e-0d061c8b0a88@case.edu>
| Take the linux mktemp, add the -c option,
Please don't, or at least not the -c option (I don't care if mktemp
is made into a builtin, seems unnecessary - scripts don't tend
to make all that many temporary files - but harmless) but please
don't make non-standard variations become more popular.
That just leads to less portable scripts, rather than better ones.
kre