$$ - see perldoc perlvar

hostname is not a builtin - see perldoc -q hostname

the combination of hostname and process id is however not a safe way to generate unique strings in general:
One process will not change it's process id, but some former process will have had the same id before. Also a potential attacker could reasonably succesfully guess a future process id and create/manipulate such a file.

Edit:
There's this module on CPAN: File::Temp return name and handle of a temporary file safely

Sören

In reply to Re: Is it possible to generate unique temporary filenames using hostname/process id? by Happy-the-monk
in thread Is it possible to generate unique temporary filenames using hostname/process id? by ashisht

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