Kuba Ober wrote: > I vaguely recall this idea being raised at one point or another, but can't > the temporary file names be simply generated from some kind of a unique > global counter, maybe merged with PID?
We have a global counter, it is prepended to the mangled name. Otherwise it would not be unique. The reason for the additional mangling is that people get a clue where a file comes from when something goes wrong. Georg
