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1 /* Utility to pick a temporary filename prefix.
2 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of the libiberty library.
5 Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
7 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
10 Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Library General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
16 License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
17 write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
18 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
20 #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
21 #include "config.h"
22 #endif
24 #include <stdio.h> /* May get P_tmpdir. */
25 #include <sys/types.h>
26 #ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
27 #include <unistd.h>
28 #endif
29 #ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H
30 #include <stdlib.h>
31 #endif
32 #ifdef HAVE_STRING_H
33 #include <string.h>
34 #endif
35 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_FILE_H
36 #include <sys/file.h> /* May get R_OK, etc. on some systems. */
37 #endif
39 #ifndef R_OK
40 #define R_OK 4
41 #define W_OK 2
42 #define X_OK 1
43 #endif
45 #include "libiberty.h"
46 extern int mkstemps PARAMS ((char *, int));
48 /* '/' works just fine on MS-DOS based systems. */
49 #ifndef DIR_SEPARATOR
50 #define DIR_SEPARATOR '/'
51 #endif
53 /* Name of temporary file.
54 mktemp requires 6 trailing X's. */
55 #define TEMP_FILE "ccXXXXXX"
56 #define TEMP_FILE_LEN (sizeof(TEMP_FILE) - 1)
58 /* Subroutine of choose_tmpdir.
59 If BASE is non-NULL, return it.
60 Otherwise it checks if DIR is a usable directory.
61 If success, DIR is returned.
62 Otherwise NULL is returned. */
64 static inline const char *try PARAMS ((const char *, const char *));
66 static inline const char *
67 try (dir, base)
68 const char *dir, *base;
70 if (base != 0)
71 return base;
72 if (dir != 0
73 && access (dir, R_OK | W_OK | X_OK) == 0)
74 return dir;
75 return 0;
78 static const char tmp[] = { DIR_SEPARATOR, 't', 'm', 'p', 0 };
79 static const char usrtmp[] =
80 { DIR_SEPARATOR, 'u', 's', 'r', DIR_SEPARATOR, 't', 'm', 'p', 0 };
81 static const char vartmp[] =
82 { DIR_SEPARATOR, 'v', 'a', 'r', DIR_SEPARATOR, 't', 'm', 'p', 0 };
84 static char *memoized_tmpdir;
88 @deftypefn Replacement char* choose_tmpdir ()
90 Returns a pointer to a directory path suitable for creating temporary
91 files in.
93 @end deftypefn
97 char *
98 choose_tmpdir ()
100 const char *base = 0;
101 char *tmpdir;
102 unsigned int len;
104 if (memoized_tmpdir)
105 return memoized_tmpdir;
107 base = try (getenv ("TMPDIR"), base);
108 base = try (getenv ("TMP"), base);
109 base = try (getenv ("TEMP"), base);
111 #ifdef P_tmpdir
112 base = try (P_tmpdir, base);
113 #endif
115 /* Try /var/tmp, /usr/tmp, then /tmp. */
116 base = try (vartmp, base);
117 base = try (usrtmp, base);
118 base = try (tmp, base);
120 /* If all else fails, use the current directory! */
121 if (base == 0)
122 base = ".";
124 /* Append DIR_SEPARATOR to the directory we've chosen
125 and return it. */
126 len = strlen (base);
127 tmpdir = xmalloc (len + 2);
128 strcpy (tmpdir, base);
129 tmpdir[len] = DIR_SEPARATOR;
130 tmpdir[len+1] = '\0';
132 memoized_tmpdir = tmpdir;
133 return tmpdir;
138 @deftypefn Replacement char* make_temp_file (const char *@var{suffix})
140 Return a temporary file name (as a string) or @code{NULL} if unable to
141 create one. @var{suffix} is a suffix to append to the file name. The
142 string is @code{malloc}ed, and the temporary file has been created.
144 @end deftypefn
148 char *
149 make_temp_file (suffix)
150 const char *suffix;
152 const char *base = choose_tmpdir ();
153 char *temp_filename;
154 int base_len, suffix_len;
155 int fd;
157 if (suffix == 0)
158 suffix = "";
160 base_len = strlen (base);
161 suffix_len = strlen (suffix);
163 temp_filename = xmalloc (base_len
164 + TEMP_FILE_LEN
165 + suffix_len + 1);
166 strcpy (temp_filename, base);
167 strcpy (temp_filename + base_len, TEMP_FILE);
168 strcpy (temp_filename + base_len + TEMP_FILE_LEN, suffix);
170 fd = mkstemps (temp_filename, suffix_len);
171 /* If mkstemps failed, then something bad is happening. Maybe we should
172 issue a message about a possible security attack in progress? */
173 if (fd == -1)
174 abort ();
175 /* Similarly if we can not close the file. */
176 if (close (fd))
177 abort ();
178 return temp_filename;