Re: temp file name conflicts in unattended document generation

[Taco Hoekwater <taco.hoekwater@wkap.nl>]

    Gilbert> For Hans: $$ returns the curent process Id in unix, which
    Gilbert> is guaranteed to be unique. Of-course, Windows has
    Gilbert> process Id's but I don't know if you can get to them from
    Gilbert> within perl. I wouldn't be surprised if that
    Gilbert> worked. Since perl borrows much from shell-script
    Gilbert> programming, $$ is probably an existing variable in perl
    Gilbert> which does the job.

This works, at least in the newer perls (in the sense that you
actually get the process Id or at least something that is usable as
such). In the older perl ports, as well as in the DJGPP (DOS) port,
this will just give you a random number. Which should work just as
well regardless.

Greetings, Taco