From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1150 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: temp file name conflicts in unattended document generation Date: 03 Nov 1999 14:50:24 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <14366.46860.138989.757342@PC709.wkap.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391989 30349 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:53:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:53:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Taco Hoekwater Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1150 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1150 Taco Hoekwater writes: > >>>>> "Ed" == Ed L Cashin writes: > > Ed> Is that a valid concern? If so, is there a way to specify an > Ed> "id" string for use in the tempfile names? > > I agree with Ed here, there *is* a bit of a clash (also for > mpgraph.mp). But my solution is to use /var/tmp/$client-id as > directory, which solves the problem nicely. Wow, thanks, that's an excellent idea! I heard about or saw someone do that once and had forgotten the technique. -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/