Re: [9fans] mkstemp()

["Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz" <paurea@lsub.org>]

What about two instances of the same program?. What I meant in my other mail 
is that a big random number would probably suffice, as the probability of 
collision is really low
(as you say we already have user separation).
Even more if it has an identifier per applications (ex. /tmp/acme.23423) 
which also makes the name readable. In any case, if the create fails, you 
can always generate the
random number again.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] mkstemp()


>
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 cej@gli.cas.cz wrote:
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>> need mkstemp() [BSD unistd.h]
>
> why? Your tmp is not my tmp. I see no need for the actual function, just
> make something with the same name that doesn't worry about 'unique' file
> names.
>
> ron
>