[Lazarus] Safe temp file name

Tony Whyman tony.whyman at mccallumwhyman.com
Wed Nov 25 15:58:43 CET 2015


This may be an appropriate use for EnterCriticalSection and 
ExitCriticalSection, although why don't you just use a different 
"prefix" in the call to GetTempFile for each thread.

On 25/11/15 13:51, Aradeonas wrote:
> Hi,
> I used GetTempFileName in a multi thread system and it causes problems 
> as you guess already.
> So the best way in my mind is using GUID and maybe use it in a loop 
> for checking not existing for extra safety.
> But I want to know is there any clean implementation already that I 
> dont know of?
> Regards,
> Ara
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