# mktemp # Copyright (c) Derek Price, Ximbiot , and the # Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program 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, or (at your option) # any later version. # This program 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 this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA # 02111-1307, USA. # This Bourne Shell scriptlet is intended as a simple replacement for # the BSD mktemp function for systems that do not support mktemp. It # currently does not check that the files it is creating did not exist # previously and it does not verify that it successfully creates the # files it returns the names of. mktemp() { if test x"$1" = x-d; then tmp=`echo $2 |sed "s/XXXXXX/$$/"` (umask 077 && exec mkdir $tmp) || return 1 else tmp=`echo $1 |sed "s/XXXXXX/$$/"` (umask 077 && touch $tmp) || return 1 fi echo $tmp return 0 }