1/* Utility to pick a temporary filename prefix.
2 Copyright (C) 1996-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4This file is part of the libiberty library.
5Libiberty is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
7License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9
10Libiberty is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13Library General Public License for more details.
14
15You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
16License along with libiberty; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
17write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor,
18Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. */
19
20#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H
21#include "config.h"
22#endif
23
24#include <stdio.h> /* May get P_tmpdir. */
25#include <sys/types.h>
26#ifdef HAVE_UNISTD_H
27#include <unistd.h>
28#endif
29#ifdef HAVE_STDLIB_H
30#include <stdlib.h>
31#endif
32#ifdef HAVE_STRING_H
33#include <string.h>
34#endif
35
36#include "libiberty.h"
37
38/* Name of temporary file.
39 mktemp requires 6 trailing X's. */
40#define TEMP_FILE "ccXXXXXX"
41#define TEMP_FILE_LEN (sizeof(TEMP_FILE) - 1)
42
43/*
44
45@deftypefn Extension char* choose_temp_base (void)
46
47Return a prefix for temporary file names or @code{NULL} if unable to
48find one. The current directory is chosen if all else fails so the
49program is exited if a temporary directory can't be found (@code{mktemp}
50fails). The buffer for the result is obtained with @code{xmalloc}.
51
52This function is provided for backwards compatibility only. Its use is
53not recommended.
54
55@end deftypefn
56
57*/
58
59char *
60choose_temp_base (void)
61{
62 const char *base = choose_tmpdir ();
63 char *temp_filename;
64 int len;
65
66 len = strlen (s: base);
67 temp_filename = XNEWVEC (char, len + TEMP_FILE_LEN + 1);
68 strcpy (dest: temp_filename, src: base);
69 strcpy (dest: temp_filename + len, TEMP_FILE);
70
71 if (mktemp (template: temp_filename) == 0)
72 abort ();
73 return temp_filename;
74}
75

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