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1 /* Create a temporary file or directory.
2 
3    Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 
5    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
6    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
7    the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
8    (at your option) any later version.
9 
10    This program 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
13    GNU General Public License for more details.
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15    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
16    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
17 
18 /* header written by Eric Blake */
19 
20 /* In gnulib, always prefer large files.  GT_FILE maps to
21    __GT_BIGFILE, not __GT_FILE, for a reason.  */
22 #define GT_FILE		1
23 #define GT_DIR		2
24 #define GT_NOCREATE	3
25 
26 /* Generate a temporary file name based on TMPL.  TMPL must match the
27    rules for mk[s]temp (i.e. end in "XXXXXX").  The name constructed
28    does not exist at the time of the call to gen_tempname.  TMPL is
29    overwritten with the result.
30 
31    KIND may be one of:
32    GT_NOCREATE:		simply verify that the name does not exist
33 			at the time of the call.
34    GT_FILE:		create a large file using open(O_CREAT|O_EXCL)
35 			and return a read-write fd.  The file is mode 0600.
36    GT_DIR:		create a directory, which will be mode 0700.
37 
38    We use a clever algorithm to get hard-to-predict names. */
39 extern int gen_tempname (char *tmpl, int kind);
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