Hi
I have a compressor that takes a file and first compresses it to an intermediate file "temp.lz", before compressing it to the final format. Immediately after that the file be removed by calling c's remove(char*). The problem I am afraid of is if calling this compressor from different processes is safe because of the intermediate file created which has the same name for all. (say temp.lz). Will I have problems when callinga sytem call from different process something like: system ("compress -i test.txt -o test.z") ?
I was thinking of rewriting the compressor to avoid the use of the temporary file but that is a bit awkward. I just need to use a temporary stream (file) different for each process to avoid race conditions.
thanks