On piÄtek 17 grudzieÅ 2004 02:42 am, Georg Baum wrote: > Kuba Ober wrote: > > I vaguely recall this idea being raised at one point or another, but > > can't the temporary file names be simply generated from some kind of a > > unique global counter, maybe merged with PID? > > We have a global counter, it is prepended to the mangled name. Otherwise it > would not be unique. The reason for the additional mangling is that people > get a clue where a file comes from when something goes wrong.
OK, makes sense. Thanks! Kuba
