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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */
+/* This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include "prio.h"
+#include "nscore.h"
+#include "nsIFile.h"
+
+/**
+ * OpenAnonymousTemporaryFile
+ *
+ * Creates and opens a temporary file which has a random name. Callers have no
+ * control over the file name, and the file is opened in a temporary location
+ * which is appropriate for the platform.
+ *
+ * Upon success, aOutFileDesc contains an opened handle to the temporary file.
+ * The caller is responsible for closing the file when they're finished with it.
+ *
+ * The file will be deleted when the file handle is closed. On non-Windows
+ * platforms the file will be unlinked before this function returns. On Windows
+ * the OS supplied delete-on-close mechanism is unreliable if the application
+ * crashes or the computer power cycles unexpectedly, so unopened temporary
+ * files are purged at some time after application startup.
+ *
+ */
+nsresult NS_OpenAnonymousTemporaryFile(PRFileDesc** aOutFileDesc);
+
+/**
+ * OpenAnonymousTemporaryNsIFile
+ *
+ * Similar to the previous function, it returns a nsIFile. Note that the nsIFile
+ * will not be deleted automagically. The callee has to call aFile->Remove() in
+ * order to remove the temporary file.
+ */
+nsresult NS_OpenAnonymousTemporaryNsIFile(nsIFile** aFile);