in reply to Re^2: Filenames based on timestamp
in thread Filenames based on timestamp

that's true. you could work around that by also included a PID in the filename. 
  while(-e "$time_$$_$counter") { $counter++; }
  open(F, ">$time_$$_$counter");

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of course, then the filenames won't necessarily be in ascending order chronologically.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Filenames based on timestamp
by seanpor (Novice) on Jul 23, 2002 at 13:18 UTC
    what about multiple threads :-)

    page 572-574 of camel3 suggests something along the lines of... 
    $fn = "filename_20020723141223_";
my $c = 1;
do {
    $fn .= "$c";
    $c++;
} until sysopen(FH, $fn, O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, 0600);
# now do I/O using $fh handle...

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