Re: DESKTOP_STARTUP_TIMESTAMP proposal (application-startup-notification-forwarding)

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 18:22 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:

> timestamp could possibly involve integers.  Your solution does appear
> to fix this, except that you need to specify that in
> "<unique>_TIME<timestamp>" the <unique> part can not contain _TIME;
> otherwise I think things could break.  This would also require doing

No, you don't need to do that; you just search for the last instance of
_TIME in the string.  Simple enough.  Sort of like filenames are allowed
to have "." in them and extensions don't break.