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From: tim@cithep.UucP (Tim Smith )
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: tempnam/mktemp
Message-ID: <115@cithep.UucP>
Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 01:02:55 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 25 01:02:55 1985
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> If tempnam/mktemp does anything more than sprintf(fname, "/tmp/tmp%d%d",
> getpid(), cnt++), what it does escapes me. Perhaps someone out there could
> tell me how 2 processes can have the same pid? I deem to be missing something.

Well, in the above, a proc with pid 10 creating 11 temp files will collide with
a proc with pid 101 creating 1 temp file.  Perhaps "/tmp/tmp%d.%d" would be
better. 
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