1 /* Utility to pick a temporary filename prefix.
2 Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 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
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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. */
24 #include <stdio.h> /* May get P_tmpdir. */
32 #include "libiberty.h"
33 extern char *choose_tmpdir PARAMS ((void));
35 /* Name of temporary file.
36 mktemp requires 6 trailing X's. */
37 #define TEMP_FILE "ccXXXXXX"
38 #define TEMP_FILE_LEN (sizeof(TEMP_FILE) - 1)
42 @deftypefn Extension char* choose_temp_base ()
44 Return a prefix for temporary file names or @code{NULL} if unable to
45 find one. The current directory is chosen if all else fails so the
46 program is exited if a temporary directory can't be found (@code{mktemp}
47 fails). The buffer for the result is obtained with @code{xmalloc}.
49 This function is provided for backwards compatability only. Its use is
59 const char *base = choose_tmpdir ();
64 temp_filename = xmalloc (len + TEMP_FILE_LEN + 1);
65 strcpy (temp_filename, base);
66 strcpy (temp_filename + len, TEMP_FILE);
68 mktemp (temp_filename);
69 if (strlen (temp_filename) == 0)