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IBM provides an API named tmpnam() that will produce a unique filename
in /tmp. This API is convenient, since any programmer can just call it
when they need a unique filename -- and don't have to write special code
to calculate a unique name and verify that it's unique.
the tmpnam() API creates filenames in /tmp that begin with a Q (followed
by a bunch of random letters/numbers). So that's probably what they're
seeing.
It doesn't imply that the files were generated by IBM software. Any
program running on the i can call tmpnam().
tkreimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
We have a /TMP, but it is filled with files from ill-written programs that
do not clean up after themselves. However, none of them start with Q (ie,
IBM special objects).
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