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., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
18 Boston, MA 02111-1307, 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 PARAMS ((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 PARAMS ((const char *, const char *));
66 static inline const char *
68 const char *dir, *base;
73 && access (dir, R_OK | W_OK | X_OK) == 0)
78 static const char tmp[] = { DIR_SEPARATOR, 't', 'm', 'p', 0 };
79 static const char usrtmp[] =
80 { DIR_SEPARATOR, 'u', 's', 'r', DIR_SEPARATOR, 't', 'm', 'p', 0 };
81 static const char vartmp[] =
82 { DIR_SEPARATOR, 'v', 'a', 'r', DIR_SEPARATOR, 't', 'm', 'p', 0 };
84 static char *memoized_tmpdir;
94 return memoized_tmpdir;
96 base = try (getenv ("TMPDIR"), base);
97 base = try (getenv ("TMP"), base);
98 base = try (getenv ("TEMP"), base);
101 base = try (P_tmpdir, base);
104 /* Try /var/tmp, /usr/tmp, then /tmp. */
105 base = try (vartmp, base);
106 base = try (usrtmp, base);
107 base = try (tmp, base);
109 /* If all else fails, use the current directory! */
113 /* Append DIR_SEPARATOR to the directory we've chosen
116 tmpdir = xmalloc (len + 2);
117 strcpy (tmpdir, base);
118 tmpdir[len] = DIR_SEPARATOR;
119 tmpdir[len+1] = '\0';
121 memoized_tmpdir = tmpdir;
125 /* Return a temporary file name (as a string) or NULL if unable to create
126 one. SUFFIX is a suffix to append to the file name. The string is
127 malloced, and the temporary file has been created. */
130 make_temp_file (suffix)
133 const char *base = choose_tmpdir ();
135 int base_len, suffix_len;
141 base_len = strlen (base);
142 suffix_len = strlen (suffix);
144 temp_filename = xmalloc (base_len
147 strcpy (temp_filename, base);
148 strcpy (temp_filename + base_len, TEMP_FILE);
149 strcpy (temp_filename + base_len + TEMP_FILE_LEN, suffix);
151 fd = mkstemps (temp_filename, suffix_len);
152 /* If mkstemps failed, then something bad is happening. Maybe we should
153 issue a message about a possible security attack in progress? */
156 /* Similarly if we can not close the file. */
159 return temp_filename;