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From: Russ Cox <russcox@gma...>
Subject: mkstemp()
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:16:49 -0500

> What about two instances of the same program?. What I meant in my other mail
> is that a big random number would probably suffice, as the probability of
> collision is really low
> (as you say we already have user separation).
> Even more if it has an identifier per applications (ex. /tmp/acme.23423)
> which also makes the name readable. In any case, if the create fails, you
> can always generate the
> random number again.

which is exactly what mkstemp does.