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From: randhol@pvv.org (Preben Randhol)
Subject: Re: Create-Delete tmp Files
Date: 2000/03/20
Date: 2000-03-20T16:41:06+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn8dcl5o.2mr.randhol@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 38D63810.6E679322@maths.unine.ch

On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:39:12 +0000, Gautier wrote:
[...]
>decide it is the good one: you return the name. Of course one has
>to be careful if there are parallel tasks doing the same, to lock
>the free name as soon as possible maybe by creating an bogus file with
>that name or a more solid method with an array of boolean of the range
>(say Name_locked:= (others=> false)).

Given you are not on a unix OS I guess. 

>If the loop exists normally, you raise an exception such as
>no_name_available_for_temp_file...

I was thinking about what can one use to check if a file exists? 

It looks like AD.ADB uses Exist, but which package provides this?

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Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- <http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/>
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                                                      -- Athol Fugard




      reply	other threads:[~2000-03-20  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-03-17  0:00 Create-Delete tmp Files Achim Gerhard
2000-03-17  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-17  0:00 ` John J Cupak Jr
2000-03-18  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-20  0:00     ` Achim Gerhard
2000-03-20  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-20  0:00         ` Achim Gerhard
2000-03-20  0:00           ` Robert A Duff
2000-03-20  0:00       ` tmoran
2000-03-21  0:00         ` Achim Gerhard
2000-03-21  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-21  0:00           ` Roger Barnett
2000-03-23  0:00             ` Achim Gerhard
2000-03-23  0:00               ` tmoran
2000-03-23  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-24  0:00                 ` Achim Gerhard
2000-03-24  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
2000-03-20  0:00       ` Gautier
2000-03-20  0:00         ` Preben Randhol
2000-03-20  0:00           ` Gautier
2000-03-20  0:00             ` Preben Randhol [this message]
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