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., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
18 Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
24 #include <stdio.h> /* May get P_tmpdir. */
25 #include <sys/types.h>
35 #ifdef HAVE_SYS_FILE_H
36 #include <sys/file.h> /* May get R_OK, etc. on some systems. */
45 #include "libiberty.h"
46 extern int mkstemps (char *, int);
48 /* '/' works just fine on MS-DOS based systems. */
50 #define DIR_SEPARATOR '/'
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 (const char *, const char *);
66 static inline const char *
67 try (const char *dir, const char *base)
72 && access (dir, R_OK | W_OK | X_OK) == 0)
77 static const char tmp[] = { DIR_SEPARATOR, 't', 'm', 'p', 0 };
78 static const char usrtmp[] =
79 { DIR_SEPARATOR, 'u', 's', 'r', DIR_SEPARATOR, 't', 'm', 'p', 0 };
80 static const char vartmp[] =
81 { DIR_SEPARATOR, 'v', 'a', 'r', DIR_SEPARATOR, 't', 'm', 'p', 0 };
83 static char *memoized_tmpdir;
87 @deftypefn Replacement char* choose_tmpdir ()
89 Returns a pointer to a directory path suitable for creating temporary
104 return memoized_tmpdir;
106 base = try (getenv ("TMPDIR"), base);
107 base = try (getenv ("TMP"), base);
108 base = try (getenv ("TEMP"), base);
111 base = try (P_tmpdir, base);
114 /* Try /var/tmp, /usr/tmp, then /tmp. */
115 base = try (vartmp, base);
116 base = try (usrtmp, base);
117 base = try (tmp, base);
119 /* If all else fails, use the current directory! */
123 /* Append DIR_SEPARATOR to the directory we've chosen
126 tmpdir = xmalloc (len + 2);
127 strcpy (tmpdir, base);
128 tmpdir[len] = DIR_SEPARATOR;
129 tmpdir[len+1] = '\0';
131 memoized_tmpdir = tmpdir;
137 @deftypefn Replacement char* make_temp_file (const char *@var{suffix})
139 Return a temporary file name (as a string) or @code{NULL} if unable to
140 create one. @var{suffix} is a suffix to append to the file name. The
141 string is @code{malloc}ed, and the temporary file has been created.
148 make_temp_file (const char *suffix)
150 const char *base = choose_tmpdir ();
152 int base_len, suffix_len;
158 base_len = strlen (base);
159 suffix_len = strlen (suffix);
161 temp_filename = xmalloc (base_len
164 strcpy (temp_filename, base);
165 strcpy (temp_filename + base_len, TEMP_FILE);
166 strcpy (temp_filename + base_len + TEMP_FILE_LEN, suffix);
168 fd = mkstemps (temp_filename, suffix_len);
169 /* If mkstemps failed, then something bad is happening. Maybe we should
170 issue a message about a possible security attack in progress? */
173 /* Similarly if we can not close the file. */
176 return temp_filename;