[fpc-pascal] GetTempFileName in Linux

[Jonas Maebe]

On 05 Oct 2010, at 17:38, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Oct 2010, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote:
> 
>> Hi, if I run this program from command line in Linux, I allways get the same result, "/tmp/TMP00000.tmp". Shouldn't it return a different file name each time it's executed?. 
>> How can I get different file names?
> 
> By actually creating the file. GetTempFileName does not create a file, but
> does check whether the filename exists.

What is the use of that? Between the check and creating the file, some other process may already have created it.


Jonas