Msieve and Directories

[wblipp]

Would there ever be a problem from running msieve twice in the same directory? (Say, with the naming of files...)

The question was asked in the context of doing linear algebra and square root post processing for NFS jobs.

The command line names files in the -nf, -l, -i, and -s parameters. I would anticipate problems for at least some of these if the same names were used. But as long as different names are used for these, are there any other file names that might clash?

William

[jasonp]

The library was designed to allow different factorizations to coexist in the same directory. QS jobs only use the argument to -s for the name of a temporary file, and NFS jobs append suffixes to the -s argument when generating temporary files. If all the arguments use different filenames for the different factorizations then one directory should be enough.