Hi Ralph,

You're right.  As you might expect, the code just
just iterates up from 1 until stat(2) finds the first
opening.

I'll update the man page.

Thanks!

David


Ralph wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> > With auto and suffix, n is one beyond the existing file with the
> > highest number in the same form.
> 
> I think it's more that n is the first number from 1 that isn't already
> used?  So with foo.{1,2,3,9} it's foo.4.
> 
> Cheers, Ralph.

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