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Re: etiquette of sharing executable files

From Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: etiquette of sharing executable files
Date 2019-07-07 12:30 +0200
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On Du, 07 iul 19, 11:58:21, john doe wrote:
> 
> Use as part of your directory name a random string:
> 
> - Define a variable that holds the directory name with that random string
> - Die if that directory already exist or generate a new name
> 
> The name of the directory could have the form:
> 
> directory.random-string
> 
> https://metacpan.org/pod/String::Random

As far as I know Perl has dedicated modules for creating temporary files 
(and directories) in a safe and secure way.

This usually involves including some random string in the name.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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etiquette of sharing executable files mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-07-06 21:40 +0200
  Re: etiquette of sharing executable files Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-07 01:40 +0200
  Re: etiquette of sharing executable files Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-07-07 11:30 +0200
  Re: etiquette of sharing executable files john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-07-07 12:00 +0200
    Re: etiquette of sharing executable files Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2019-07-07 12:10 +0200
      Re: etiquette of sharing executable files <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-07 12:30 +0200
      Re: etiquette of sharing executable files Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-08 15:10 +0200
        Re: etiquette of sharing executable files Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-07-09 01:20 +0200
    Re: etiquette of sharing executable files Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-07 12:30 +0200
    Re: etiquette of sharing executable files <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-07 12:30 +0200
  Re: etiquette of sharing executable files Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-07-07 12:50 +0200
  Re: etiquette of sharing executable files David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-07-07 20:50 +0200

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