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TMPFILE

Section: NEWLIB (3)
Updated: 2005 Feb 23
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NAME

3.48 `tmpfile'--create a temporary file

 

SYNOPSIS


     #include <stdio.h>
     FILE *tmpfile(void);


     FILE *_tmpfile_r(struct _reent *REENT);  

DESCRIPTION

Create a temporary file (a file which will be deleted automatically), using a name generated by `tmpnam'. The temporary file is opened with the mode `"wb+"', permitting you to read and write anywhere in it as a binary file (without any data transformations the host system may perform for text files).


   The alternate function `_tmpfile_r' is a reentrant version.  The argument REENT is a pointer to a reentrancy structure.

 

RETURNS

`tmpfile' normally returns a pointer to the temporary file. If no temporary file could be created, the result is NULL, and `errno' records the reason for failure.

 

PORTABILITY

Both ANSI C and the System V Interface Definition (Issue 2) require `tmpfile'.


   Supporting OS subroutines required: `close', `fstat', `getpid', `isatty', `lseek', `open', `read', `sbrk', `write'.


   `tmpfile' also requires the global pointer `environ'.

 

SEE ALSO

tmpfile is part of the libc library. The full documentation for libc is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If info and libc are properly installed at your site, the command
info libc

will give you access to the complete manual.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURNS
PORTABILITY
SEE ALSO

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