1 /* Copyright (C) 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
6 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
7 License, or (at your option) any later version.
9 The GNU C Library 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 GNU
12 Library General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
15 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If
16 not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave,
17 Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. */
26 /* Generate a unique temporary file name from TEMPLATE.
27 The last six characters of TEMPLATE must be "XXXXXX";
28 they are replaced with a string that makes the filename unique.
29 Returns a file descriptor open on the file for reading and writing. */
31 DEFUN(mkstemp
, (template), char *template)
33 static CONST
char letters
[]
34 = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789";
38 len
= strlen (template);
39 if (len
< 6 || strcmp (&template[len
- 6], "XXXXXX"))
45 if (sprintf (&template[len
- 5], "%.5u",
46 (unsigned int) getpid () % 100000) != 5)
47 /* Inconceivable lossage. */
50 for (i
= 0; i
< sizeof (letters
); ++i
)
54 template[len
- 6] = letters
[i
];
56 fd
= open (template, O_RDWR
|O_CREAT
|O_EXCL
, 0666);
61 /* We return the null string if we can't find a unique file name. */