Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] wrapper: use a CSPRNG to generate random file names

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René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes:

> ...  But
> a replacement for git_mkstemp_mode() with two umask(2) calls looks less
> attractive to me than fortifying git_mkstemps_mode() with a good source
> of randomness.

True.

Also, it is not like we are supplying our own implementation of
random source, but are just pluggig various system-supplied random
source into our code, so I do not see the "auditatiblity" problem we
heard earlier too much of an issue.




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