On 4 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Juan Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Along those lines would be the ability to generate a unique temporary file > > name. Windows provides that functionality. I think it can be very handy. > > Subversion has a custom routine for doing that, too. You specify a > prefix path (like "/tmp/svn-commit") and a suffix (like "tmp") and the > result looks like "/tmp/svn-commit.12345.00000.tmp", where 12345 is, I > think, some pointer value, and 00000 is a monotonically increasing > trail-and-error countery thing. > > Be great if APR grew such a routine, too. This would be simple to add, because we already have this feature internally. The only thing we would have to do, is expose it through an API. Ryan
