andrew@alice.UUCP (07/06/87)
I need a solution to this puzzle but can't think of a simple one; any simple solutions much appreciated. A server (invoked over the network) writes files into a directory. (Other programs asynchronously use and unlink these files.) The file names are arbitrary; currently they are serverpid-seqno. The problem is that the directory gets too large (10K entries) and this seriously impacts other programs. My thought was to have sub-directories with a limited number (say 1K) of entries; but i don't see how to do that simply either. solutions/questions to research!andrew