glibc/stdio-common/tempnam.c

/* Copyright (C) 1991, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.

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#include <ansidecl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>


/* Generate a unique temporary filename using up to five characters of PFX
   if it is not NULL.  The directory to put this file in is searched for
   as follows: First the environment variable "TMPDIR" is checked.
   If it contains the name of a writable directory, that directory is used.
   If not and if DIR is not NULL, that value is checked.  If that fails,
   P_tmpdir is tried and finally "/tmp".  The storage for the filename
   is allocated by `malloc'.  */
char *
DEFUN(tempnam, (dir, pfx), CONST char *dir AND CONST char *pfx)
{
  size_t len;
  register char *s;
  register char *t = __stdio_gen_tempname(dir, pfx, 1, &len, (FILE **) NULL);

  if (t == NULL)
    return NULL;

  s = (char *) malloc(len);
  if (s == NULL)
    return NULL;

  (void) memcpy(s, t, len);
  return s;
}