Jim Henderson wrote:
> No, that you'd have a path which was storage for temp files, system-
> wide.  

Um, right. Same with Windows.

> In *nix, ISTR there's a call to "create a temporary file", no need 
> to track it by name because all the program needs is the file handle.

Um, no. If you want to close the file and reopen it later, because it's, 
say, a cache file, then you need to know the name.  How come people 
invariably think a "temp file" means you never close it, reopen it, or 
pass it to another program?  In any case, I'm not talking about temp 
files. I'm talking about cache files.  And since programs *don't* do 
this, a discussion of how it might be able to work without changing the 
file system doesn't help anyway.

-- 
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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