Author: Sheldon Hearn Date: To: Chris Thompson CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] What to do about non-monitonic process ids
On (2003/02/05 15:45), Chris Thompson wrote:
> > > The use of unpredictable filenames would be an added level of protection
> > > against programming mistakes.
> >
> > You mean like forgetting to use O_CREAT?
>
> Do you mean O_CREAT+O_EXCL here? O_CREAT by itself doesn't guarantee the
> file being new.
I believe this kinda proves my point, in the general case at least.
Whether Philip in particular would ever make this particular mistake in
Exim code is a different matter. ;-)
