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From: andrew@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: spooling names
Message-ID: <7066@alice.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 06:31:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: alice.7066
Posted: Mon Jul  6 06:31:54 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jul-87 01:50:15 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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Summary: i need a simple way to generate local spool names


	I need a solution to this puzzle but can't think of a simple one;
any simple solutions much appreciated.

	A server (invoked over the network) writes files into a directory.
(Other programs asynchronously use and unlink these files.) The file names
are arbitrary; currently they are serverpid-seqno. The problem is that
the directory gets too large (10K entries) and this seriously impacts
other programs. My thought was to have sub-directories with a limited
number (say 1K) of entries; but i don't see how to do that simply either.

	solutions/questions to research!andrew