On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 03:58:45PM -0400, Paul Jarc allegedly wrote:
> "MarkD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I wasn't trying to suggest that inode become the sole identifier, just
> > that it's a good "uniquifier" in conjunction with time+pid+FQDN
>
> Ah. Yes, inode would be just as unique as a counter of deliveries by
> this process.
>
> But we need to create a unique filename in tmp/ before we know what
> the inode will be. Once we have a filename that's unique enough for
> tmp/, it's also unique enough for new/ and cur/.
Not so.
tmp/ is only used by processes that currently exist, consequently,
pid+FQDN is perfectly adequate. If the file with your pid exists in
tmp/, you can be sure that that process died before delivery was
completed.
Regards.
