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author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1999-07-06 16:26:03 +0000 |
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committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1999-07-06 16:26:03 +0000 |
commit | 2e65ca2b226a55e7d25ef687ce33185c0a71bd99 (patch) | |
tree | 0b76ef817b2b4977374fe025016e80fcd2e4f3ff /manual/filesys.texi | |
parent | 4708015f24a69bd0a436483c4d1244d1fb1f2e87 (diff) | |
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Update.
1999-07-06 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/alpha/ioperm.c: Update for some more
motherboards.
Patch by Jay Estabrook.
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure.in: Don't test for libc4 in
ldd for SPARC.
* /sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sparc/ldd-rewrite.sed: New file.
Patch by Cristian Gafton.
1999-07-02 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/bits/socket.h (__cmsg_nxthdr): "return 0"
instead of "return NULL" to make C++ happy.
1999-07-04 Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
* libio/iofdopen.c (_IO_new_fdopen): Set EINVAL if MODE is not
allowed by the file access mode of the open file.
1999-07-06 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
* sysdeps/generic/setfpucw.c: Include math.h to get all needed
macros defined.
1999-07-03 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz>
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/submul_1.S: Fix carry handling. Optimize.
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/lshift.S: Make a leaf subroutine. Optimize.
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/rshift.S: Likewise.
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/mul_1.S: Optimize.
1999-07-04 Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
* malloc/malloc.c (request2size): Check for overflow and return
NULL whenever it is encountered.
1999-07-04 Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>
* sysdeps/posix/tempname.c (__gen_tempname): Add
ability to create directories. Replace OPENIT and LARGEFILE
args with a single flags parameter.
* sysdeps/generic/tempname.c: Likewise.
* include/stdio.h: Adjust prototype of __gen_tempname to
match. Define symbolic constants for second argument.
* misc/mkdtemp.c: New file, provides new function mkdtemp().
* stdlib/stdlib.h: Prototype it.
* misc/Versions: Export it.
* misc/Makefile (routines): Add mktemp.
* manual/filesys.texi: Document it.
* misc/mktemp.c: Adjust call of __gen_tempname to match new
convention.
* misc/mkstemp.c: Likewise.
* stdio-common/tempnam.c: Likewise.
* stdio-common/tmpfile.c: Likewise.
* stdio-common/tmpfile64.c: Likewise.
* stdio-common/tmpnam.c: Likewise.
* stdio-common/tmpnam_r.c: Likewise.
1999-07-05 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz>
* sysdeps/sparc/sparc64/dl-machine.h (elf_machine_rela): Support
R_SPARC_OLO10 relocations.
* elf/elf.h (R_SPARC_OLO10): Fix comment.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual/filesys.texi')
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1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/manual/filesys.texi b/manual/filesys.texi index 51af84633d..29f20758e8 100644 --- a/manual/filesys.texi +++ b/manual/filesys.texi @@ -2935,7 +2935,7 @@ end with @samp{XXXXXX}, @code{mkstemp} returns @code{-1} and does not modify @var{template}. The file is opened using mode @code{0600}. If the file is meant to be -used by other users the mode must explicitly changed. +used by other users the mode must be changed explicitly. @end deftypefun Unlike @code{mktemp}, @code{mkstemp} is actually guaranteed to create a @@ -2943,3 +2943,28 @@ unique file that cannot possibly clash with any other program trying to create a temporary file. This is because it works by calling @code{open} with the @code{O_EXCL} flag bit, which says you want to always create a new file, and get an error if the file already exists. + +@comment stdlib.h +@comment BSD +@deftypefun {char *} mkdtemp (char *@var{template}) +The @code{mkdtemp} function creates a directory with a unique name. If +it succeeds, it overwrites @var{template} with the name of the +directory, and returns @var{template}. As with @code{mktemp} and +@code{mkstemp}, @var{template} should be a string ending with +@samp{XXXXXX}. + +If @code{mkdtemp} cannot create an uniquely named directory, it returns +@code{NULL} and sets @var{errno} appropriately. If @var{template} does +not end with @samp{XXXXXX}, @code{mkdtemp} returns @code{NULL} and does +not modify @var{template}. @var{errno} will be set to @code{EINVAL} in +this case. + +The directory is created using mode @code{0700}. +@end deftypefun + +The directory created by @code{mkdtemp} cannot clash with temporary +files or directories created by other users. This is because directory +creation always works like @code{open} with @code{O_EXCL}. +@xref{Creating Directories}. + +The @code{mkdtemp} function comes from OpenBSD. |