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MKSTEMP(3)		   Linux Programmers Manual		   MKSTEMP(3)



NAME
       mkstemp, mkostemp - create a unique temporary file

SYNOPSIS
       #include 

       int mkstemp(char *template);

       int mkostemp (char *template, int flags);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       mkstemp(): _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
       mkostemp(): _GNU_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION
       The  mkstemp() function generates a unique temporary filename from tem
       plate, creates and opens the file, and returns an open file  descriptor
       for the file.

       The  last  six  characters  of  template must be "XXXXXX" and these are
       replaced with a string that makes the filename unique.  Since  it  will
       be  modified,  template	must  not  be a string constant, but should be
       declared as a character array.

       The file is created with permissions 0600, that is, read plus write for
       owner  only.   (In glibc versions 2.06 and earlier, the file is created
       with permissions 0666, that is, read and write  for  all  users.)   The
       returned  file  descriptor  provides  both read and write access to the
       file.  The file is opened with the open(2)  O_EXCL  flag,  guaranteeing
       that the caller is the process that creates the file.

       mkostemp()  is  like  mkstemp(),  with the difference that flags as for
       open(2) may be specified in flags (e.g., O_APPEND, O_SYNC).

RETURN VALUE
       On success, these functions return the file descriptor of the temporary
       file.  On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS
       EEXIST Could  not create a unique temporary filename.  Now the contents
	      of template are undefined.

       EINVAL The last six characters of template were not XXXXXX.   Now  tem
	      plate is unchanged.

       These  functions  may  also  fail  with any of the errors described for
       open(2).

VERSIONS
       mkostemp() is available since glibc 2.7.

CONFORMING TO
       mkstemp(): 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.  mkostemp(): is a glibc extension.

NOTES
       The old behavior of creating a file with mode 0666 may  be  a  security
       risk,  especially since other Unix flavors use 0600, and somebody might
       overlook this detail when porting programs.

       More generally, the POSIX specification of mkstemp() does not say  any
       thing  about  file  modes, so the application should make sure its file
       mode creation mask (see umask(2)) is set appropriately  before  calling
       mkstemp() (and mkostemp()).

       The  prototype  for mktemp() is in  for libc4, libc5, glibc1;
       glibc2 follows POSIX.1 and has the prototype in .

SEE ALSO
       mkdtemp(3), mktemp(3), tempnam(3), tmpfile(3), tmpnam(3)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.05 of the Linux  man-pages  project.   A
       description  of	the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



GNU				  2008-06-19			    MKSTEMP(3)




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