Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: PIPEs Message-ID: <6976@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 3 Nov 90 18:16:51 GMT References: <53407.657565922@atronx.UUCP> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 12 In article <53407.657565922@atronx.UUCP> rwm@atronx.UUCP (Russell McOrmond) writes: > Here's WHY you wish them to be un-named this way you KNOW that the names are > unique: I now do some convaluted task+timer thing to try to make sure I have > a unique name. I don't see how !printf("RAM:%08lx.%d", FindTask((char *)0), seq++)! would fail. The task that creates the pipe should continue to execute over the lifetime of the pipe for this to work, but that should be the case anyway. This is the general temp-file problem. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .