Re: Creating temporary files

On 12/20/05 10:37, opaquay@gillam-fei.be wrote:
> set my_server_socket [socket $server_ip $server_port]
>
> Can i use safely my_server_socket to generate temporary filenames such
> as
>
> file_${my_server_socket}1
> file_${my_server_socket}2
> ...
> file_${my_server_socket}16
>
> and assume that temporary file names for 2 concurent apps won't clash ?
>
At least on Linux there's a very big chance the file names will clash.
The first socket opened by each process (usually) gets a handle of "sock3".

However each process will have to use a different port for connecting to
the server, so you could probably use that as a unique identifier:

set local_port [lindex [fconfigure $my_server_socket -sockname] 2]

Schelte

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