Re: Root/TMP

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM provides an API named tmpnam() that will produce a unique filename 
in /tmp.  This API is convenient, since any programmer can just call it 
when they need a unique filename -- and don't have to write special code 
to calculate a unique name and verify that it's unique.

the tmpnam() API creates filenames in /tmp that begin with a Q (followed 
by a bunch of random letters/numbers).  So that's probably what they're 
seeing.

It doesn't imply that the files were generated by IBM software.  Any 
program running on the i can call tmpnam().


tkreimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> We have a /TMP, but it is filled with files from ill-written programs that 
> do not clean up after themselves. However, none of them start with Q (ie, 
> IBM special objects).