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Akhassin at 21:37, 3 October 2009

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Akhassin at 21:36, 3 October 2009

2009-10-03T21:36:38Z

Akhassin: Document behavior under Windows

2009-10-03T21:35:20Z

Document behavior under Windows

WikiSysop: imported from WiKit id 601

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Man page: http://aolserver.com/docs/tcl/ns_mktemp.html

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'''NAME'''

: ns_mktemp - Make a unique temporary file name

'''SYNOPSIS'''

: '''ns_mktemp''' ''template''

'''DESCRIPTION'''

: This command is a wrapper around the mktemp(3) function in the C standard library. It takes a template, which is a string whose last six characters must be XXXXXX, and returns a new string where those are replaced with random characters such as to make the string a unique file name. It is commonly used to safely create temporary files.

: Note that some implementations of mktemp are not so safe - it creates predictable/only a small number of variations - please consult your system's man pages if this might be an issue to you. AOLserver could potentially be improved to use mkstemp instead.

'''EXAMPLES'''

% ns_mktemp /tmp/aol-XXXXXX
/tmp/aol-rhaGGx

'''SEE ALSO'''

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[[Category Documentation]] - [[Category Core Tcl API]]

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 : Note that some implementations of mktemp are not so safe - it creates predictable/only a small number of variations - please consult your system's man pages if this might be an issue to you. AOLserver could potentially be improved to use mkstemp instead.
-: WARNING: On Windows, ns_mktemp has the following behavior that may not be immdiately obvious:
+: WARNING: On Windows, ns_mktemp has the following behavior that may not be immediately obvious:
 :* multiple calls in the same thread return exact same name until a file is actually created with that name
 :* there are only 26 unique combinations per thread id for a given template

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 : WARNING: On Windows, ns_mktemp has the following behavior that may not be immdiately obvious:
-* multiple calls in the same thread return exact same name until a file is actually created with that name
+:* multiple calls in the same thread return exact same name until a file is actually created with that name
-* there are only 26 unique combinations per thread id for a given template
+:* there are only 26 unique combinations per thread id for a given template
 '''EXAMPLES'''

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		+	: WARNING: On Windows, ns_mktemp has the following behavior that may not be immdiately obvious:
		+	* multiple calls in the same thread return exact same name until a file is actually created with that name
		+	* there are only 26 unique combinations per thread id for a given template

	'''EXAMPLES'''		'''EXAMPLES'''