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In article <1991Jan16.040022.22135@eecs.wsu.edu> rnelson@eecs.wsu.edu (Roger Nelson - Grad Student) writes:

> Is it not the responsibility of the File System to manage the HD resource?
> If the File System is reliable against large numbers of simultaneous
> operations, then there must be some flaw in the HD, the controller, or the
> HD driver software?

I don't know if this is what happens with LHARC, but it is a simple
counter example to what you suggest:

The FS can only protect you to a certain (excuse the pun) extent.
What if a utility needs to create a temporary file.  It creates it as
T:lharc.tmp every time.  Running the utility multiple times will cause
problems.  This is the kind of thing I would expect from a program
ported from the PC.

I didn't like the one I found in Manx 3.6 so I wrote my own.  I
believe AmigaDOS 2.0 has a "create unique file name" system call.  
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