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Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0012181344550.7266-100000@mail> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 13:47:37 -0800 Reply-To: Ryan Russell <ryan@SECURITYFOCUS.COM> From: Ryan Russell <ryan@SECURITYFOCUS.COM> X-To: Michael Damm <miked@ACCESSNW.NET> To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10012151231430.690-100000@mail.accessnw.net> On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Michael Damm wrote: > I alwas was a difficult child. > TMPKEY="$RANDOM" > echo "foo" >/tmp/blah.$TMPKEY Which allows for the possibility of collisions. Various instances of the script might on rare occasion step on each-others temp files, causing problems at, uh... random. That's why $$ is used, because the OS is responsible for making sure process IDs are unique for all the current processes. Ryan
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