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mkstemp

Syntax

 
#include <stdio.h>

int mkstemp(char *template);

Description

template is a file specification that ends with six trailing X characters. This function replaces the XXXXXX with a set of characters such that the resulting file name names a nonexisting file. It then creates and opens the file in a way which guarantees that no other process can access this file.

Note that since MS-DOS is limited to eight characters for the file name, and since none of the X's get replaced by a dot, you can only have two additional characters before the X's.

Note also that the path you give will be modified in place.

Return Value

The open file descriptor.

Portability

ANSI/ISO C No
POSIX No

Example

 
char path[100];
strcpy(path, "/tmp/ccXXXXXX");
int fd = mkstemp(path);


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