Re: Re: uploading a file with the same name

Or use the process ID as a portion of the name, ie image-$PID-$INCREMENTING_COUNTER, that should do the trick. So long as the operation is atomic within the PID it'll be fine (which it is).

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Re: uploading a file with the same name by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Jul 25, 2002 at 09:19 UTC
Not necessarely. For instance if you are using a threaded webserver in combination with mod_perl. Whether each thread inside the same process get its own PID depends on the OS. Abigail	[reply]


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