Re: Timestamp as a Filename Collection

Why not just do something like $filename = time() . $$;, or something along those lines? Just curious, since time() returns the number of seconds since the epoch, and unless you were on a system that could not do 17+ character filenames...

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Re: Re: Timestamp as a Filename Collection by hiseldl (Priest) on Sep 11, 2002 at 03:55 UTC
The trick is that I wanted something immediately understandable with all my filenames the same length, excluding the pid. :) -- hiseldl "Act better than you feel"	[reply]
Re^3: Timestamp as a Filename Collection by atcroft (Abbot) on Sep 11, 2002 at 04:07 UTC
True, but the current results of time() is on the order of 10e9 seconds, and being 32-bit integer, won't go much larger. But I do understand the part about being understandable. If the contents of the directory are understood anyway, though...	[reply]