From: 13 <one.three@...>
Date: 2006-05-02T03:04:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Generate unique filenames

Steve, you're right !

If I will need to be so bulletproof then I will create a list of
filenames that I have created and delete them sometime.

Thanks, for pointing me to this problem.

--
Martins

On 5/1/06, Stephen Waits <steve@waits.net> wrote:
> 13 wrote:
> >
> > Tempfile creates an empty file (in /tmp by default) even if I don't
> > write in it. It's not very good IMO. I rather choose some self made
> > random number based solution. It would be great if there were some
> > Tempfile class method like Tempfile.name(basename, tmpdir=Dir::tmpdir)
> > which returns just a name without creating a file.
>
> You're entitled to your opinion.. but..
>
> The way that you're asking for it to work is badly broken, because in
> that case, you may attempt to use the filename and find that it's no
> longer unique.
>
> --Steve
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