02-04-2003
A lot of systems ship with an intro in each section.
So to get an intro to section 2 of the manual, you use the command:
man 2 intro
(Although for SunOS/Solaris, the command is slightly different - I can't remember what it is. Use man man to find out how to specify the section to look in.)
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MKDTEMP(3) Linux Programmer's Manual MKDTEMP(3)
NAME
mkdtemp - create a unique temporary directory
SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h>
char *mkdtemp(char *template);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
mkdtemp(): _BSD_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
The mkdtemp() function generates a uniquely named temporary directory from template. The last six characters of template must be XXXXXX
and these are replaced with a string that makes the directory name unique. The directory is then created with permissions 0700. Since it
will be modified, template must not be a string constant, but should be declared as a character array.
RETURN VALUE
The mkdtemp() function returns a pointer to the modified template string on success, and NULL on failure, in which case errno is set appro-
priately.
ERRORS
EINVAL The last six characters of template were not XXXXXX. Now template is unchanged.
Also see mkdir(2) for other possible values for errno.
VERSIONS
Available since glibc 2.1.91.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2008. This function is present on the BSDs.
SEE ALSO
mkdir(2), mkstemp(3), mktemp(3), tempnam(3), tmpfile(3), tmpnam(3)
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
GNU
2008-08-21 MKDTEMP(3)