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From: lew@t4test.UUCP (Lew Mullen)
Newsgroups: net.eunice
Subject: Re: crp files, unique process names
Message-ID: <1079@t4test.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Aug-84 12:13:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 30 12:13:55 1984
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Summary: Unique process names

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>Has anyone else had files named "crp" show up in your directories?
>
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>has anyone figured out how to create unique process name related
>files for files that stay around after a process "dies."  In

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crp files are, of course, junk from "awk" ... leftover debug code ?

volume one, section 3 has a call "mktemp()" to do this.
Chip Rosenthal wrote this to make it available from shell:

/* 
 * mktemp: return a unique file name
 *   example:  set tempfile=`mktemp /tmp/foo`
 */
main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char argv;
{
    char buf[64];
    strcpy(buf,argv[1]);
    strcat(buf,"XXXXXX");
    mktemp(buf);
    puts(buf);
}