/* tempfile.c: handle temporary directory creation (formerly also temporary * files but this is no longer used). * * Copyright (C) 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011 Colin Watson. * * This file is part of man-db. * * man-db is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or * (at your option) any later version. * * man-db is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License * along with man-db; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H # include "config.h" #endif /* HAVE_CONFIG_H */ #include #include #include #include "xvasprintf.h" #include "manconfig.h" static const char *path_search (void) { const char *dir = NULL; if (getuid () == geteuid () && getgid () == getegid ()) { dir = getenv ("TMPDIR"); if (!dir || !CAN_ACCESS (dir, W_OK)) dir = NULL; if (!dir) { dir = getenv ("TMP"); if (!dir || !CAN_ACCESS (dir, W_OK)) dir = NULL; } } #ifdef P_tmpdir if (!dir) { dir = P_tmpdir; if (!dir || !CAN_ACCESS (dir, W_OK)) dir = NULL; } #endif if (!dir) { dir = "/tmp"; if (!CAN_ACCESS (dir, W_OK)) dir = NULL; } return dir; } /* Get a sane temporary directory, looking in $TMPDIR, P_tmpdir, and finally * /tmp. */ char *create_tempdir (const char *template) { const char *dir = path_search (); char *created_dirname; if (!dir) return NULL; created_dirname = xasprintf ("%s/%sXXXXXX", dir, template); if (!mkdtemp (created_dirname)) return NULL; return created_dirname; }