[distcc] g_mkstmp() replacement for tempfile.c

[Shawn]

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:42 PM, bjcheny <companycy at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi shawn,
>
> This function exists in glib, other than glibc.
> Glib is not necessarily existing on every platforms, I guss.
> At least, it's missing from my Mac.
> Although it may work as desired, we need to ask for additional lib.
>

yes it is a new lib

however, it does exist on OSX

http://www.gtk.org/download/macos.php

to only install glib you would probably use macports or something. I don't
use mac. We would just ship with the source perhaps.

>
> 2012/6/5 shawn <shawnlandden at gmail.com>
>
>>
>> from tempfile.c
>> ==
>>
>> * It would be nice if we could use a standard function, but I don't
>> * think any of them are adequate: we need to control the extension
>> * and know the filename.  tmpfile() does not give back the filename.
>> * tmpnam() is insecure.  mkstemp() does not allow us to set the
>> * extension.
>> *
>> * It sucks that there is no standard function.  The implementation
>> * below is inspired by the __gen_tempname() code in glibc; hopefully
>> * it will be secure on all platforms.
>>
>> ===
>> well, such a thing DOES exist, in glib:
>>
>> http://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.33/glib-File-Utilities.html#g-mkstemp
>>
>> interested in switching?
>> ==
>>
>>
>> gint                g_mkstemp                           (gchar *tmpl);
>>
>> Opens a temporary file. See the mkstemp() documentation on most
>> UNIX-like systems.
>>
>> The parameter is a string that should follow the rules for mkstemp()
>> templates, i.e. contain the string "XXXXXX". g_mkstemp() is slightly
>> more flexible than mkstemp() in that the sequence does not have to occur
>> at the very end of the template. The X string will be modified to form
>> the name of a file that didn't exist. The string should be in the GLib
>> file name encoding. Most importantly, on Windows it should be in UTF-8.
>>
>> tmpl :
>> template filename. [type filename]
>>
>> Returns :
>> A file handle (as from open()) to the file opened for reading and
>> writing. The file is opened in binary mode on platforms where there is a
>> difference. The file handle should be closed with close(). In case of
>> errors, -1 is returned and errno will be set.
>>
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