On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 3:42:15 PM UTC-7, Sébastien Labbé wrote:
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>>  If you're creating filenames via a predictable pattern, you're 
>> vulnerable to a denial of service, since an adversary might try and predict 
>> which file you're going to try and create next and do that before you.
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> OK, but why not do both?
>
Because that's extra administration. I think Niles's suggestion of using 
creation/modification time metadata to  locate particular temporary files 
(should they still exist) is a much better and much more reliable one. 

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