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NAME

6       pm_make_tmpfile_fd() - create a temporary named file
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SYNOPSIS

10       #include <netpbm/pm.h>
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12       pm_make_tmpfile(int *         fdP,
13                       const char ** filenameP);
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EXAMPLE

17       This  simple  example creates a temporary file, writes "hello world" to
18       it, then writes some search patterns to it, then uses it  as  input  to
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21       #include <netpbm/pm.h>
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23       int fd;
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26       pm_make_tmpfile_fd(&fdP, &myfilename);
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28       write(fd, "^account:\\s.*\n", 16);
29       fprintf(fd, "^name:\\s.*\n", 13);
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31       close(fd);
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33       asprintfN(&grepCommand, "grep --file='%s' /tmp/infile >/tmp/outfile");
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35       system(grepCommand);
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37       strfree(grepCommand);
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39       unlink(myfilename);
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DESCRIPTION

46       This library function is part of Netpbm(1).
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48       pm_make_tmpfile_fd()  is  analogous  to pm_make_tmpfile()(1).  The only
49       difference is that it opens the file as a low  level  file,  as  open()
50       would, rather than as a stream, as fopen() would.
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52       If  you  don't  need  to  access  the file by name, use pm_tmpfile_fd()
53       instead, because it's cleaner.   With  pm_tmpfile_fd(),  the  operating
54       system  always  deletes  the temporary file when your program exits, if
55       the program failed to clean up after itself.
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HISTORY

60       pm_tmpfile() was introduced in Netpbm 10.42 (March 2008).
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DOCUMENT SOURCE

63       This manual page was generated by the Netpbm tool 'makeman'  from  HTML
64       source.  The master documentation is at
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66              http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/libmaketmpfilefd.html
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