getpid() or something similar

[David Roundy]

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 12:05:46PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote:
> Simon Marlow writes:
> 
>  > Even using a ProcessID doesn't guarnatee uniqueness [...]
> 
> Why not? If I use the file only temporarily (it is gone once the
> process terminates), something like /tmp/foo.<pid> will be unique, for
> all I can tell. 

A Bad Person using another program may have created a file named
/tmp/foo.<pid> to annoy you (or crash your program)...
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David Roundy
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