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dirfd: Use better and faster random algorithm for gen_temp_name()
I was looking at ostree performance, and a surprising amount of time was spent in `glnx_gen_temp_name()`. We end up calling it from the main loop, and the iteration here shows up in my perf profiles. The glibc algorithm here that we adopted is *very* dated; let's switch to use `GRand`, which gives us a better algorithm. It'd be even better of course to use `getrandom()`, but we should do that in glib at some point. While I had the patient open, I extended the charset with lowercase, to better avoid collisions.
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