Make a unique filesystem path, without creating the file

[Ben Finney]

Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benjamin at gmail.com> writes:

> If you're going to patch open to return a fake file when asked to open
> fake_file_path why do you care whether there is a real file of that
> name?

I don't, and have been saying explicitly many times in this thread that
I do not care whether the file exists. Somehow that is still not clear?

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Ben Finney