Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!lll-lcc!lll-tis!ptsfa!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter DaSilva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Comments on the uniqueness of task & window id's Message-ID: <386@sugar.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Jul-87 18:16:27 EDT Article-I.D.: sugar.386 Posted: Sat Jul 11 18:16:27 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 13:36:05 EDT References: <8706260543.AA20346@cogsci.berkeley.edu> <4445@ihlpa.ATT.COM> Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX Lines: 18 Keywords: ID-handler > processid. This works until a shell (possibly a background job running > a script) produces such a pipeline and then goes away, and then another > shell appears in its same place (it must be Friday the 13th!). If > this shell tries to produce a similar pipeline, there could be name > conflicts with the extant pipes from the previous shell. Do what UNIX programs do to create files in /tmp. What you do is: Create name filename.digits.A begin: Examine it. If it exists, create name filename.digits.B, and try again. end: create the file and boogie. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!seismo!soma!uhnix1!sugar!peter (I said, NO PHOTOS!)