On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Jason P Sage wrote: >> I read an old thread about how to make temporary filenames (unique >> filenames is what the topic was about) and I have written a simple >> unit that sort of does this without needing a second to elapse (or >> millisecond for that >> matter) to pass in order to get the next unique name. I have heard of a >> possible unit or routine that MAY be available to us FPC coders that does >> some sort of GUID algorithm. this would interest me.
Then Michael Wrote: > >What is the problem with the systutils version of gettempfilename ? On >windows, this reverts to the OS call. On other platforms, an own >implementation is used. > >Michael. Hello Michael. This may work even better! If this works faster than the method I implemented, I'd much rather use it in place of my own. I will have to do some experimenting with it, but if it generates unique filenames under load (multiple programs all using the same call simultaneously) without flaw, than I will definitely adopt the FPC method sysutils.GetTempFilename - for code management, portability reasons, and the likelihood of a performance boost to what I have devised and am using now. Perhaps the original author who was trying to do this for GO32 (whose email request was a few years old now Nov, 2001 I think) was unaware of this GetTempFileName call, it didn't exist then, or it did not work for him in GO32, at least there are "home made" alternatives one could devise with a little creativity that can accomplish the same thing as I have done. Thank You, Jason P Sage _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
