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#43 extensions for random filenames in datapath
Some people need to change their datapath, and some beginners do quite often. Others use relative datapaths, with the binary in the current directory. Adding ".rsf@" extensions to the randomly-generated binary file names (such as sfcp2IEUFwgu) would make them easily findable using disk search tools.
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Anonymous
Done: http://rsf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rsf/trunk/api/c/file.c?r1=6775&r2=7072
Does not work - see "man mkstemp".
In stdlib.h there is a mkstemps ( notice the s at the end) that allows this. The mkstemps() function acts the same as mkstemp(), except it permits a suffix to exist in the template. The template should be of the form /tmp/tmpXXXXXXsuffix. The mkstemps() function is told the length of the suffix string. So a separate work copy of the string may be needed for this purpose. I may try to fix this when I catch some time...
mkstemps is appropriate but not standard and might be missing on some platforms, needs testing