MKSTEMP(3POSIX)

🌸 PROLOG 🌸

okay bestie, real talk first 💅 — this manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (so like, go check the corresponding Linux manual page for the deets on Linux behavior, fr), or the interface may not even be implemented on Linux at all. no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

mkstemp — create a unique file 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <stdlib.h>

int mkstemp(char *template);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

honey. sweetie. light of my life. it literally just says:

Refer to mkdtemp().

that's it. that's the whole description. iconic minimalism 💀✨ go read mkdtemp() and it'll all make sense, i promise, trust.

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

okay so legally i have to tell you this and i'm gonna tell you it with my whole chest 🫶

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document (so like, the original is the main character here, not this page 💅). The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓✨ this lil love letter to mkstemp came to you courtesy of IEEE/The Open Group, dated 2017, filed under MKSTEMP(3POSIX) — mwah, take care of her 💜🧚