Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20010124105227.022430b8@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall@pop.ma.ultranet.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:57:12 -0500 To: klaus.berndl@sdm.de, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: unique filename In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 10:18 AM 1/24/2001, klaus.berndl@sdm.de wrote: >What is the normal way with Unix-systems to create a unique filename? > >Thanx, >Klaus Programmatically or from the shell prompt? mktemp, which was just announced on this list, from Chuck Wilson's "misc" package should do this for you at the shell prompt. mktemp() does this programmatically. BTW, this isn't really a Cygwin question so you might want to follow-up on some mail list discussing C library calls if you have further issues. Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple