[dev] Re: [cvs] commit: imp/scripts imp-cleanup.cron

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter@physics.utexas.edu>:

> Thay all already have a known, predictable prefix.  This just
> consolidates them.  In a way, it makes it easier to predict a file name, 
> but in another way it makes it less predictable as you wouldn't know if 
> the file name would be use by imp, klutz, horde, etc. which right now you 
> do.  If they all use the same creation/deletion mechanism, then the impact 
> of that is reduced. But it is still something to consider (since 
> exploitable bugs could be specific to an app within horde, etc).

Hmm, true. Maybe we should be giving them all random prefixes instead of app
prefixes?

-chuck

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