Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 03:57:28 -0400
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Ethan Benson on Thu 29/08 23:26 -0800:
> you can argue that im being pedantic and the lack of quoting will
> probably not matter in this script, but in some cases its just too
> dangerous not to.

nahh, for instance mktemp will never give you spaces or anything like
that.  Why quote when you can always guarantee you don't need to?  I
think scripts which quote everything just to be safe for no reason are
silly.  Not that every case in the script was like that.

> also you should never assume that there are not hostile users messing
> with /tmp.

yeah PID is too predictable, plus it wraps