Manual page for mktemp(3C)
mktemp - make a unique file name
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
char *mktemp(char *template);
MT-LEVEL
Safe
DESCRIPTION
mktemp()
replaces the contents of the string pointed to by
template
with a unique file name, and returns
template.
The string in
template
should look like a file name with six trailing
Xs;
mktemp()
will replace the
Xs
with a character string
that can be used to create a unique file name.
RETURN VALUES
mktemp()
will assign to template the empty string if it
cannot create a unique name.
SEE ALSO
tmpfile.3s
tmpnam.3s
NOTES
mktemp()
can create only 26 unique file names per thread
for each unique template.
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
