Handover, Make

2005-07-27 Thread Brian O'Mahoney
First, congratulations Junio, on taking over this stuff, and all the best. Second, the killer argument, in the 'Recursive Make ... harmful' is the basic one that Recursive Makes breaks up the dependancy graph, and almost guarentees that it is wrong unless you do a lot of work to fix that

Re: SHA1 hash safety

2005-04-16 Thread Brian O'Mahoney
Three points: (1) I _have_ seen real-life collisions with MD5, in the context of Document management systems containing ~10^6 ms-WORD documents. (2) The HMAC (ethernet-harware-address) of any interface _should_ help to make a unique Id. (3) While I havn't looked at the details of the

Re: fix mktemp (remove mktemp ;)

2005-04-16 Thread Brian O'Mahoney
details of their environment, that's friendlier to all concerned. And actually my distro is fine - it's just that I am running an old version of it on one of my systems. Newer versions of the mktemp -t option. -- mit freundlichen Grüßen, Brian. Dr. Brian O'Mahoney Mobile +41 (0)79 334