On Apr 3, 2000, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Akim Demaille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Would doing something like
>> tmp=/tmp/ac.${RANDOM-$$}
>> be good?
> Sure, that would definitely be an improvement on any host with a
> shell that has $RANDOM support, and shouldn't be any worse on hosts
> without it.
Except that RANDOM may be not that RANDOM, i.e., it may randomly clash
too, so we'd better retry it a few times before giving up. It may
become extremely annoying in case of a huge package with dozens of
`configure's.
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