22 May
2003
22 May
'03
6:23 a.m.
On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 12:05:46PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
Simon Marlow writes:
Even using a ProcessID doesn't guarnatee uniqueness [...]
Why not? If I use the file only temporarily (it is gone once the process terminates), something like /tmp/foo.<pid> will be unique, for all I can tell.
A Bad Person using another program may have created a file named /tmp/foo.<pid> to annoy you (or crash your program)... -- David Roundy http://www.abridgegame.org