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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mkstemp()
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:02:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 22:02:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050129030207.24388.qmail@g.galapagos.bx.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000501c50540$0cfdc290$0200000a@urjc1>

| Creating a name with a random number in /tmp like /tmp/acme.paurea.987987 
| wouldn't suffice?. Given we have private namespaces and random numbers
| normally don't collide /tmp/acme.234234 or even /tmp/23234234 would probably 
| suffice too.

But still, it's nice to have a general solution.  Sometimes you do need
to create a file in a shared space.  One could even imagine a fileserver
that filled in the filename for you, rather like the special purpose
ones under /net.  In general you probably don't want to reserve the name
"clone", but "..." or "" might be ok.



  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-29  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-28 13:39 cej
2005-01-28 13:44 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2005-01-29  3:02   ` Scott Schwartz [this message]
2005-01-29  3:07     ` boyd, rounin
2005-01-29  3:15       ` Russ Cox
2005-01-29  7:23         ` arisawa
2005-01-29  9:11           ` Russ Cox
2005-01-29 10:11             ` arisawa
2005-01-29 15:11               ` Russ Cox
2005-01-29  8:30       ` geoff
2005-01-28 15:05 ` Russ Cox
2005-01-28 15:38 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-01-28 16:08   ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2005-01-28 16:16     ` Russ Cox
2005-01-31  8:29 cej

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