In article , Don Pearce
wrote:
I don't know if it is the same in all OS, but for temp files I generally
use a word relevant to the programme plus the current process ID number.
This pretty much guarantees a unique name that won't be used by anyone
else.

I tend to do something similar for tempfiles in ram: when using RISC OS.

Security isn't really an issue there as RO doesn't have much anyway beyond
their only being one user! The only user is the root user. End of.

Jim

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