rahed schreef:
> AndrewMcHorney:
>> I am looking for a perl function or functions that will give me the
>> date and time. I am going to use the results to create a unique file
>> name.
>
> There are many posibilities depending on uniqueness,
> this is quite similar:
>
> $randnum = 1000 + int rand(9000);
> $filename = time.'_'.$randnum;
You could put that inside a "while (1) {}",
that also contains a "-e $filename or last;",
but even then you would still risk a race condition.
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