🚀 go-pugleaf

In  <15682@cbmvax.commodore.com> (7 Nov),
Dave Haynie (daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com) writes:
> In article <1990Nov3.073201.8227@agate.berkeley.edu> pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) writes:
>
|>     Make an initial stab at a name, perhaps using the middle bits
|>     of the current process address as a basis -- getting 'P!4283' say.
>
> Your whole process address, in hex, fits quite easily in a file name, with
> many more characters left over for additional stuff.
>
Yeah, fer shure.  In my zeal for generality, I made things more complicated
than I need have.  The moment I posted it I realized that I should have
used hex.

The important point though is that, even if you do use the full ID, it is
STILL only an "initial stab".  A single parent process may want to open
several pipes, and will have to generate a new name for each.  As Process
structures are necessarily spaced fairly well apart, the simplest scheme
is probably to start with the address, increment it by 1 for each new pipe,
and generate the hex string from that.

                                            -- Pete --