stdio-common/tempnam.c

   1 /* Copyright (C) 1991-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   2    This file is part of the GNU C Library.
   3
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   8
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  13
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  15    License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
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  17
  18 #include <stdio.h>
  19 #include <string.h>
  20
  21 /* Generate a unique temporary filename using up to five characters of
  22    PFX if it is not NULL.  The directory to put this file in is
  23    searched for as follows: First the environment variable "TMPDIR" is
  24    checked.  If it contains the name of a directory, that directory is
  25    used.  If not and if DIR is not NULL, that value is checked.  If
  26    that fails, P_tmpdir is tried and finally "/tmp".  The storage for
  27    the filename is allocated by `malloc'.  */
  28 char *
  29 tempnam (const char *dir, const char *pfx)
  30 {
  31   char buf[FILENAME_MAX];
  32
  33   if (__path_search (buf, FILENAME_MAX, dir, pfx, 1))
  34     return NULL;
  35
  36   if (__gen_tempname (buf, 0, 0, __GT_NOCREATE))
  37     return NULL;
  38
  39   return __strdup (buf);
  40 }
  41
  42 link_warning (tempnam,
  43               "the use of `tempnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'")