mktemp - make a unique filename
#include <stdlib.h> char *mktemp(char *template);
The mktemp() function replaces the contents of the string pointed to by template by a unique filename and returns template. The application must initialise template to be a filename with six trailing 'X's; mktemp() replaces each 'X' with a single byte character from the portable filename character set.
The mktemp() function returns the pointer template. If a unique name cannot be created, template points to a null string.
No errors are defined.
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Between the time a pathname is created and the file opened, it is possible for some other process to create a file with the same name. The mkstemp() function avoids this problem.For portability with previous versions of this document, tmpnam() is preferred over this function.
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mkstemp(), tmpfile(), tmpnam(), <stdlib.h>.