FileUtils.mkdtemp

Creates a temporary directory. See the mkdtemp() documentation on most UNIX-like systems.

The parameter is a string that should follow the rules for mkdtemp() templates, i.e. contain the string "XXXXXX". g_mkdtemp() is slightly more flexible than mkdtemp() in that the sequence does not have to occur at the very end of the template. The X string will be modified to form the name of a directory that didn't exist. The string should be in the GLib file name encoding. Most importantly, on Windows it should be in UTF-8.

If you are going to be creating a temporary directory inside the directory returned by g_get_tmp_dir(), you might want to use g_dir_make_tmp() instead.

struct FileUtils
static
string
mkdtemp
(
string tmpl
)

Parameters

tmpl string

template directory name

Return Value

Type: string

A pointer to @tmpl, which has been modified to hold the directory name. In case of errors, %NULL is returned and %errno will be set.

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