glibc/stdio-common/tmpnam.c

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

static char tmpnam_buffer[L_tmpnam];

/* Generate a unique filename in P_tmpdir.

   This function is *not* thread safe!  */
char *
tmpnam (char *s)
{
  /* By using two buffers we manage to be thread safe in the case
     where S != NULL.  */
  char tmpbufmem[L_tmpnam];
  char *tmpbuf = s ?: tmpbufmem;

  /* In the following call we use the buffer pointed to by S if
     non-NULL although we don't know the size.  But we limit the size
     to L_tmpnam characters in any case.  */
  if (__builtin_expect (__path_search (tmpbuf, L_tmpnam, NULL, NULL, 0),
			0))
    return NULL;

  if (__builtin_expect (__gen_tempname (tmpbuf, 0, __GT_NOCREATE), 0))
    return NULL;

  if (s == NULL)
    return (char *) memcpy (tmpnam_buffer, tmpbuf, L_tmpnam);

  return s;
}

link_warning (tmpnam,
	      "the use of `tmpnam' is dangerous, better use `mkstemp'")