-/* Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 Free
- Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 1998-1999, 2001, 2005-2007, 2009-2011 Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc.
This file is derived from the one in the GNU C Library.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# define __GT_FILE 0
#endif
-/* Generate a unique temporary file name from TEMPLATE.
- The last six characters of TEMPLATE must be "XXXXXX";
+/* Generate a unique temporary file name from XTEMPLATE.
+ The last six characters of XTEMPLATE must be "XXXXXX";
they are replaced with a string that makes the file name unique.
- Then open the file and return a fd. */
+ Then open the file and return a fd.
+
+ If you are creating temporary files which will later be removed,
+ consider using the clean-temp module, which avoids several pitfalls
+ of using mkstemp directly. */
int
-mkstemp (template)
- char *template;
+mkstemp (char *xtemplate)
{
- return __gen_tempname (template, 0, 0, __GT_FILE);
+ return __gen_tempname (xtemplate, 0, 0, __GT_FILE);
}