pm_make_tmpfile_fd() - create a temporary named file
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Description
This library function is part of Netpbm(1).
pm_make_tmpfile_fd() is analogous to pm_make_tmpfile()(1). The only difference is that it opens the file
as a low level file, as open() would, rather than as a stream, as fopen() would.
If you don't need to access the file by name, use pm_tmpfile_fd() instead, because it's cleaner. With
pm_tmpfile_fd(), the operating system always deletes the temporary file when your program exits, if the
program failed to clean up after itself.
Document Source
This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman' from HTML source. The master documentation
is at
http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/libmaketmpfilefd.html
netpbm documentation 31 December 2007 Netpbmsubroutine...file_fd()function(3)
Example
This simple example creates a temporary file, writes "hello world" to it, then writes some search
patterns to it, then uses it as input to grep:
#include <netpbm/pm.h>
int fd;
const char * myfilename;
pm_make_tmpfile_fd(&fdP, &myfilename);
write(fd, "^account:\\s.*\n", 16);
fprintf(fd, "^name:\\s.*\n", 13);
close(fd);
asprintfN(&grepCommand, "grep --file='%s' /tmp/infile >/tmp/outfile");
system(grepCommand);
strfree(grepCommand);
unlink(myfilename);
strfree(myfilename);
History
pm_tmpfile() was introduced in Netpbm 10.42 (March 2008).
Name
pm_make_tmpfile_fd() - create a temporary named file
Synopsis
#include <netpbm/pm.h>
pm_make_tmpfile(int * fdP,
const char ** filenameP);
