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+.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993
+.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
+.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information
+.\" Processing Systems.
+.\"
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+.\"
+.\" @(#)tmpnam.3 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/17/93
+.\"
+.Dd November 17, 1993
+.Dt TMPFILE 3
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm tempnam ,
+.Nm tmpfile ,
+.Nm tmpnam
+.Nd temporary file routines
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <stdio.h>
+.Ft FILE *
+.Fn tmpfile void
+.Ft char *
+.Fn tmpnam "char *str"
+.Ft char *
+.Fn tempnam "const char *tmpdir" "const char *prefix"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn tmpfile
+function
+returns a pointer to a stream associated with a file descriptor returned
+by the routine
+.Xr mkstemp 3 .
+The created file is unlinked before
+.Fn tmpfile
+returns, causing the file to be automatically deleted when the last
+reference to it is closed.
+The file is opened with the access value
+.Ql w+ .
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn tmpnam
+function
+returns a pointer to a file name, in the
+.Dv P_tmpdir
+directory, which
+did not reference an existing file at some indeterminate point in the
+past.
+.Dv P_tmpdir
+is defined in the include file
+.Aq Pa stdio.h .
+If the argument
+.Fa s
+is
+.Pf non- Dv NULL ,
+the file name is copied to the buffer it references.
+Otherwise, the file name is copied to a static buffer.
+In either case,
+.Fn tmpnam
+returns a pointer to the file name.
+.Pp
+The buffer referenced by
+.Fa s
+is expected to be at least
+.Dv L_tmpnam
+bytes in length.
+.Dv L_tmpnam
+is defined in the include file
+.Aq Pa stdio.h .
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn tempnam
+function
+is similar to
+.Fn tmpnam ,
+but provides the ability to specify the directory which will
+contain the temporary file and the file name prefix.
+.Pp
+The environment variable
+.Ev TMPDIR
+(if set), the argument
+.Fa tmpdir
+(if
+.Pf non- Dv NULL ) ,
+the directory
+.Dv P_tmpdir ,
+and the directory
+.Pa /tmp
+are tried, in the listed order, as directories in which to store the
+temporary file.
+.Pp
+The argument
+.Fa prefix ,
+if
+.Pf non- Dv NULL ,
+is used to specify a file name prefix, which will be the
+first part of the created file name.
+.Fn Tempnam
+allocates memory in which to store the file name; the returned pointer
+may be used as a subsequent argument to
+.Xr free 3 .
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+The
+.Fn tmpfile
+function
+returns a pointer to an open file stream on success, and a
+.Dv NULL
+pointer
+on error.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn tmpnam
+and
+.Fn tempfile
+functions
+return a pointer to a file name on success, and a
+.Dv NULL
+pointer
+on error.
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Fn tmpfile
+function
+may fail and set the global variable
+.Va errno
+for any of the errors specified for the library functions
+.Xr fdopen 3
+or
+.Xr mkstemp 3 .
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn tmpnam
+function
+may fail and set
+.Va errno
+for any of the errors specified for the library function
+.Xr mktemp 3 .
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn tempnam
+function
+may fail and set
+.Va errno
+for any of the errors specified for the library functions
+.Xr malloc 3
+or
+.Xr mktemp 3 .
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr mkstemp 3 ,
+.Xr mktemp 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn tmpfile
+and
+.Fn tmpnam
+functions
+conform to
+.St -ansiC .
+.Sh BUGS
+These interfaces are provided for System V and
+.Tn ANSI
+compatibility only.
+The
+.Xr mkstemp 3
+interface is strongly preferred.
+.Pp
+There are four important problems with these interfaces (as well as
+with the historic
+.Xr mktemp 3
+interface).
+First, there is an obvious race between file name selection and file
+creation and deletion.
+Second, most historic implementations provide only a limited number
+of possible temporary file names (usually 26) before file names will
+start being recycled.
+Third, the System V implementations of these functions (and of
+.Xr mktemp )
+use the
+.Xr access 2
+function to determine whether or not the temporary file may be created.
+This has obvious ramifications for setuid or setgid programs, complicating
+the portable use of these interfaces in such programs.
+Finally, there is no specification of the permissions with which the
+temporary files are created.
+.Pp
+This implementation does not have these flaws, but portable software
+cannot depend on that.
+In particular, the
+.Fn tmpfile
+interface should not be used in software expected to be used on other systems
+if there is any possibility that the user does not wish the temporary file to
+be publicly readable and writable.
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