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  3. July 2006

Re: Anybody know a quick and easy way to generate a unique IFS directory for temporary use?

Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Why not use the tmpnam() function?
First thing I looked at. As I understand the docs, it's QTEMP-specific, and therefore NOT guaranteed to be unique as an IFS name.
I've looked into the "timestamp" idea, and I think I've got a quicker, easier version thereof: just take the binary integer time() returns, make a character string out of its digits, prepend some prefix like "TEMP", so it's recognizable, and use that. No need to convert to a human-readable time, no need to replace punctuation. 

Thanks. Although I'm still open to other ideas.

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