/* $Id$ */ /* mktemp - make a name for a temporary file; only here for backwards compat */ /* no _-protected system-calls? */ unsigned int getpid(void); int access(char *, int); char *mktemp(char *template) { register int pid, k; register char *p; pid = getpid(); /* get process id as semi-unique number */ p = template; while (*p) p++; /* find end of string */ /* Replace XXXXXX at end of template with pid. */ while (*--p == 'X') { *p = '0' + (pid % 10); pid /= 10; } p++; for (k = 'a'; k <= 'z'; k++) { *p = k; if (access(template, 0) < 0) { return template; } } return("/"); }