df: document the new --output option
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1 /* Create a temporary file or directory, safely.
2 Copyright (C) 2007-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
7 (at your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
17 /* Written by Jim Meyering and Eric Blake. */
19 #include <config.h>
20 #include <sys/types.h>
21 #include <getopt.h>
23 #include "system.h"
25 #include "close-stream.h"
26 #include "error.h"
27 #include "filenamecat.h"
28 #include "quote.h"
29 #include "stdio--.h"
30 #include "tempname.h"
32 /* The official name of this program (e.g., no 'g' prefix). */
33 #define PROGRAM_NAME "mktemp"
35 #define AUTHORS \
36 proper_name ("Jim Meyering"), \
37 proper_name ("Eric Blake")
39 static const char *default_template = "tmp.XXXXXXXXXX";
41 /* For long options that have no equivalent short option, use a
42 non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1. */
43 enum
45 SUFFIX_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1,
46 TMPDIR_OPTION
49 static struct option const longopts[] =
51 {"directory", no_argument, NULL, 'd'},
52 {"quiet", no_argument, NULL, 'q'},
53 {"dry-run", no_argument, NULL, 'u'},
54 {"suffix", required_argument, NULL, SUFFIX_OPTION},
55 {"tmpdir", optional_argument, NULL, TMPDIR_OPTION},
56 {GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL},
57 {GETOPT_VERSION_OPTION_DECL},
58 {NULL, 0, NULL, 0}
61 void
62 usage (int status)
64 if (status != EXIT_SUCCESS)
65 emit_try_help ();
66 else
68 printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTION]... [TEMPLATE]\n"), program_name);
69 fputs (_("\
70 Create a temporary file or directory, safely, and print its name.\n\
71 TEMPLATE must contain at least 3 consecutive 'X's in last component.\n\
72 If TEMPLATE is not specified, use tmp.XXXXXXXXXX, and --tmpdir is implied.\n\
73 "), stdout);
74 fputs (_("\
75 Files are created u+rw, and directories u+rwx, minus umask restrictions.\n\
76 "), stdout);
77 fputs ("\n", stdout);
78 fputs (_("\
79 -d, --directory create a directory, not a file\n\
80 -u, --dry-run do not create anything; merely print a name (unsafe)\n\
81 -q, --quiet suppress diagnostics about file/dir-creation failure\n\
82 "), stdout);
83 fputs (_("\
84 --suffix=SUFF append SUFF to TEMPLATE. SUFF must not contain slash.\n\
85 This option is implied if TEMPLATE does not end in X.\n\
86 "), stdout);
87 fputs (_("\
88 --tmpdir[=DIR] interpret TEMPLATE relative to DIR. If DIR is not\n\
89 specified, use $TMPDIR if set, else /tmp. With\n\
90 this option, TEMPLATE must not be an absolute name.\n\
91 Unlike with -t, TEMPLATE may contain slashes, but\n\
92 mktemp creates only the final component\n\
93 "), stdout);
94 fputs ("\n", stdout);
95 fputs (_("\
96 -p DIR use DIR as a prefix; implies -t [deprecated]\n\
97 -t interpret TEMPLATE as a single file name component,\n\
98 relative to a directory: $TMPDIR, if set; else the\n\
99 directory specified via -p; else /tmp [deprecated]\n\
100 "), stdout);
101 fputs ("\n", stdout);
102 fputs (HELP_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
103 fputs (VERSION_OPTION_DESCRIPTION, stdout);
104 emit_ancillary_info ();
107 exit (status);
110 static size_t
111 count_consecutive_X_s (const char *s, size_t len)
113 size_t n = 0;
114 for ( ; len && s[len-1] == 'X'; len--)
115 ++n;
116 return n;
119 static int
120 mkstemp_len (char *tmpl, size_t suff_len, size_t x_len, bool dry_run)
122 return gen_tempname_len (tmpl, suff_len, 0, dry_run ? GT_NOCREATE : GT_FILE,
123 x_len);
126 static int
127 mkdtemp_len (char *tmpl, size_t suff_len, size_t x_len, bool dry_run)
129 return gen_tempname_len (tmpl, suff_len, 0, dry_run ? GT_NOCREATE : GT_DIR,
130 x_len);
133 /* True if we have already closed standard output. */
134 static bool stdout_closed;
136 /* Avoid closing stdout twice. Since we conditionally call
137 close_stream (stdout) in order to decide whether to clean up a
138 temporary file, the exit hook needs to know whether to do all of
139 close_stdout or just the stderr half. */
140 static void
141 maybe_close_stdout (void)
143 if (!stdout_closed)
144 close_stdout ();
145 else if (close_stream (stderr) != 0)
146 _exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
150 main (int argc, char **argv)
152 char const *dest_dir;
153 char const *dest_dir_arg = NULL;
154 bool suppress_stderr = false;
155 int c;
156 unsigned int n_args;
157 char *template;
158 char *suffix = NULL;
159 bool use_dest_dir = false;
160 bool deprecated_t_option = false;
161 bool create_directory = false;
162 bool dry_run = false;
163 int status = EXIT_SUCCESS;
164 size_t x_count;
165 size_t suffix_len;
166 char *dest_name;
168 initialize_main (&argc, &argv);
169 set_program_name (argv[0]);
170 setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
171 bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
172 textdomain (PACKAGE);
174 atexit (maybe_close_stdout);
176 while ((c = getopt_long (argc, argv, "dp:qtuV", longopts, NULL)) != -1)
178 switch (c)
180 case 'd':
181 create_directory = true;
182 break;
183 case 'p':
184 dest_dir_arg = optarg;
185 use_dest_dir = true;
186 break;
187 case 'q':
188 suppress_stderr = true;
189 break;
190 case 't':
191 use_dest_dir = true;
192 deprecated_t_option = true;
193 break;
194 case 'u':
195 dry_run = true;
196 break;
198 case TMPDIR_OPTION:
199 use_dest_dir = true;
200 dest_dir_arg = optarg;
201 break;
203 case SUFFIX_OPTION:
204 suffix = optarg;
205 break;
207 case_GETOPT_HELP_CHAR;
209 case 'V': /* Undocumented alias, for compatibility with the original
210 mktemp program. */
211 case_GETOPT_VERSION_CHAR (PROGRAM_NAME, AUTHORS);
212 default:
213 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
217 if (suppress_stderr)
219 /* From here on, redirect stderr to /dev/null.
220 A diagnostic from getopt_long, above, would still go to stderr. */
221 if (!freopen ("/dev/null", "wb", stderr))
222 error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno,
223 _("failed to redirect stderr to /dev/null"));
226 n_args = argc - optind;
227 if (2 <= n_args)
229 error (0, 0, _("too many templates"));
230 usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
233 if (n_args == 0)
235 use_dest_dir = true;
236 template = (char *) default_template;
238 else
240 template = argv[optind];
243 if (suffix)
245 size_t len = strlen (template);
246 if (!len || template[len - 1] != 'X')
248 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0,
249 _("with --suffix, template %s must end in X"),
250 quote (template));
252 suffix_len = strlen (suffix);
253 dest_name = xcharalloc (len + suffix_len + 1);
254 memcpy (dest_name, template, len);
255 memcpy (dest_name + len, suffix, suffix_len + 1);
256 template = dest_name;
257 suffix = dest_name + len;
259 else
261 template = xstrdup (template);
262 suffix = strrchr (template, 'X');
263 if (!suffix)
264 suffix = strchr (template, '\0');
265 else
266 suffix++;
267 suffix_len = strlen (suffix);
270 /* At this point, template is malloc'd, and suffix points into template. */
271 if (suffix_len && last_component (suffix) != suffix)
273 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0,
274 _("invalid suffix %s, contains directory separator"),
275 quote (suffix));
277 x_count = count_consecutive_X_s (template, suffix - template);
278 if (x_count < 3)
279 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, _("too few X's in template %s"), quote (template));
281 if (use_dest_dir)
283 if (deprecated_t_option)
285 char *env = getenv ("TMPDIR");
286 dest_dir = (env && *env
287 ? env
288 : (dest_dir_arg ? dest_dir_arg : "/tmp"));
290 if (last_component (template) != template)
291 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0,
292 _("invalid template, %s, contains directory separator"),
293 quote (template));
295 else
297 if (dest_dir_arg && *dest_dir_arg)
298 dest_dir = dest_dir_arg;
299 else
301 char *env = getenv ("TMPDIR");
302 dest_dir = (env && *env ? env : "/tmp");
304 if (IS_ABSOLUTE_FILE_NAME (template))
305 error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0,
306 _("invalid template, %s; with --tmpdir,"
307 " it may not be absolute"),
308 quote (template));
311 dest_name = file_name_concat (dest_dir, template, NULL);
312 free (template);
313 template = dest_name;
314 /* Note that suffix is now invalid. */
317 /* Make a copy to be used in case of diagnostic, since failing
318 mkstemp may leave the buffer in an undefined state. */
319 dest_name = xstrdup (template);
321 if (create_directory)
323 int err = mkdtemp_len (dest_name, suffix_len, x_count, dry_run);
324 if (err != 0)
326 error (0, errno, _("failed to create directory via template %s"),
327 quote (template));
328 status = EXIT_FAILURE;
331 else
333 int fd = mkstemp_len (dest_name, suffix_len, x_count, dry_run);
334 if (fd < 0 || (!dry_run && close (fd) != 0))
336 error (0, errno, _("failed to create file via template %s"),
337 quote (template));
338 status = EXIT_FAILURE;
342 if (status == EXIT_SUCCESS)
344 puts (dest_name);
345 /* If we created a file, but then failed to output the file
346 name, we should clean up the mess before failing. */
347 if (!dry_run && ((stdout_closed = true), close_stream (stdout) != 0))
349 int saved_errno = errno;
350 remove (dest_name);
351 error (EXIT_FAILURE, saved_errno, _("write error"));
355 #ifdef lint
356 free (dest_name);
357 free (template);
358 #endif
360 exit (status);